Bulawayo East
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| Bulawayo East | |
|---|---|
| Former constituency for the National Assembly of Zimbabwe | |
| Province | Bulawayo |
| Region | Bulawayo |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1939–1979; recreated 2005 |
| Abolished | 2023 |
| Seats | 1 |
Bulawayo East was a constituency represented in the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, located in Bulawayo. It was dissolved in the delimitation process prior to the 2023 election. Its most recent MP, elected in the 2018 election, was Ilos Nyoni of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance.[1] Bulawayo East was also a constituency of the Parliament of Rhodesia between 1939 and 1979.
Members
[edit]| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | John Banks Brady | United | |
| 1946 | David Wood Young | United | |
| 1948 | Robert Francis Halsted | United | |
| 1954 | Abraham Eliezer Abrahamson | United Federal | |
| 1958 | |||
| 1962 | Rhodesia National | ||
| 1965 | Joel Pincus | Rhodesian Front | |
| 1970 | Elias Broomberg | Rhodesian Front | |
| 1974 | |||
| 1977 | Charles McKenzie Scott | Rhodesian Front | |
| Constituency abolished 1979–2005 | |||
| 2005 | Welshman Ncube | MDC–N | |
| 2008 | Thabitha Khumalo | MDC–T | |
| 2013 | |||
| 2018 | Ilos Nyoni | MDC Alliance | |
Election results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDC–T | Thabitha Khumalo | 3,587 | 45.09% | −36.11% | |
| MDC-M | Yasimin Toffa | 2,525 | 31.74% | +31.74% | |
| ZANU–PF | Nacisio Makulumo | 1,031 | 12.96% | −5.84% | |
| Independent | Sakiwe Ndhlovu | 471 | 5.92% | +5.92% | |
| Federal Democratic Union | Dumiso Matshazi | 147 | 1.85% | +1.85% | |
| Independent | Francis Takaendisa | 114 | 1.43% | +1.43% | |
| UPP | Stanley Moyo | 80 | 1.01% | +1.01% | |
| Majority | 1,062 | 13.35% | −49.05% | ||
| MDC–T hold | Swing | −33.93% | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDC | Welshman Ncube | 10,804 | 81.20 | ||
| ZANU–PF | Joshua Malinga | 2,506 | 18.80 | ||
| Majority | 8,298 | 62.40% | |||
| MDC win | |||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "MPs and Senators declared elected after 30 July 2018_harmonised elections". veritaszim.net. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ^ Carr, Adam. "Legislative Election of 2008, Elections to the House of Assembly".
- ^ Carr, Adam. "Legislative Election of 31 March 2005".