Mt. Darwin West is a constituency which elects a representative to the Zimbabwe House of Assembly as of the 2008 parliamentary election. Vice-President Joyce Mujuru was the ZANU-PF candidate at the election. She faced two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidates, Gora Madzudzo from the MDC-T, the formation supporting Morgan Tsvangirai, and Shanya Joseph from the MDC-M, the one supporting Arthur Mutambara.
Both official results released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and those announced by independent/opposition groups indicated that Mujuru won with a large majority.
The following results are the official results.
| General Election 2008: Mt.Darwin West | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| ZANU-PF | Joyce Mujuru | 13270 | 83.20 | ||
| MDC-T | Gora Madzudzo | 1792 | 11.24 | ||
| MDC (Mutambara) | Shanya Joseph | 887 | 5.56 | ||
| Majority | 11478 | 71.96 | |||
| Turnout | 15949 | ||||
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