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General elections were held in Zambia on 12 August 2021 to elect the President, National Assembly, mayors, council chairs and councillors. Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development was elected president, defeating incumbent Edgar Lungu of the Patriotic Front.
The current president is Hakainde Hichilema, who assumed office on August 24, 2021, following the 2021 presidential election where his party, the United Party for National Development, won a majority. The president's role includes appointing the Cabinet, serving as Commander-in-Chief of the Zambian Defence Force, and ensuring the enforcement of ...
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia. 12 August - Zambian President Edgar Lungu deploys army members throughout the country as Zambia holds election. [1] 14 August - Incumbent President Lungu states that the 2021 general election was not free and fair. [2] 16 August - Hakainde Hichilema is declared winner of the 2021 Zambian general election [3]
However, constitutional reforms passed in 2015 introduced the two-round system, which was used for the 2016 elections. [5] Until 2016, if a president died in office, a by-election was held to elect a president to serve the remainder of the five-year term; under this system presidential by-elections were held in 2008 and 2015 after two ...
Edgar Lungu during the 2021 election campaigns. Edgar Lungu's eligibility to contest the 2026 elections elections became a landmark legal issue, [1] culminating in a pivotal ruling by the Constitutional Court. [2] Lungu, who served as Zambia's sixth President from January 2015 to August 2021, assumed office following the death of President ...
The inauguration of Hakainde Hichilema as the 7th president of Zambia was held on 24 August 2021. [1] President-elect Hichilema won by a landslide with over 996,000 votes between him and the Incumbent president Edgar Lungu who got 1,814, 201 votes in the August 2021 presidential election. [2] [3] Hakainde Hichilema took the oath alongside ...
21 August 2021: Source: This file was derived from: 2016 Zambia Presidential Election Results by Constituency.svg by Lighton Phiri (modified the constituencies Mpika, Mfuwe and Kanchibiya according to the ECZ website) data source: Result by Constituency, Electoral Commission of Zambia: Author: Furfur: Permission (Reusing this file)
Zambia's first multi-party elections for parliament and the presidency since the 1960s were held on 31 October 1991. MMD candidate Frederick Chiluba resoundingly carried the presidential election over Kenneth Kaunda with 76% of the vote. [11]