Results
| Parties | Votes | % | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front | 1,569,867 | 59.6 | 78 |
| Movement for Democratic Change | 1,041,292 | 39.5 | 41 |
| Independents | 16,223 | 0.6 | 1 |
| Zimbabwe African National Union-Ndonga | 6,608 | 0.3 | 0 |
| Zimbabwe Youth in Alliance | 594 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Zimbabwe People's Democratic Party | 61 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Presidential appointees | 20 | ||
| Ex-officio members (Chiefs) | 10 | ||
| Total (turnout 47.7%) | 2,634,645 | 100.0 | 150 |
| Registered voters | 5,658,624 | ||
| Total votes cast | 2,696,670 | ||
| Invalid votes | 62,025 | ||
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The results showed the same pattern as in 2000. The MDC won virtually all the seats in the main cities, Harare and Bulawayo, where civil society organisations are relatively strong and able to prevent electoral manipulation. The MDC also won a majority of seats in the southern region of Matabeleland, where the Ndebele people, once supporters of Joshua Nkomo's ZAPU, continue to oppose the Shona-dominated ZANU-PF. But in rural Mashonaland, in central and northern Zimbabwe, where the majority of the population lives, ZANU-PF won all but one seat.
In some notable local results, Emmerson Mnangagwa, speaker of the previous parliament, and tipped at one time to succeed Mugabe but recently fallen from grace, lost his seat Kwe-kwe to the MDC's Blessing Chebundo. Jonathan Moyo, an independent, won the Tsholotsho constituency from the MDC. Another significant loss for the MDC was Chimanimani, contested by Roy Bennett's wife Heather.
The Zimbabwe Election Support Network, which had some 6,000 observers in the 8,000 polling stations, says that some 10% of would-be voters were turned away, either because their names were not on the electoral roll, they did not have the right identity papers, or they were in the wrong constituency.
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