ZEC submits Delimitation Preliminary Report to Mnangagwa

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has submitted the Delimitation Preliminary Report to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Delimitation will likely cause the redrawing of electoral boundaries in Zimbabwe. It will affect the 2023 general elections which it will ensure that there are equal voting strengths in wards and constituencies across the country.

The process of redrawing electoral boundaries must happen every 10 years and follows a census exercise in line with Section 161 of the Zimbabwe Constitution.

ZEC chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba submitted the report to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

The election board confirmed the development through its Twitter account ‘’Today (26 December 2022), the ZEC chairperson Honourable Justice PM Chigumba submitted the Delimitation Preliminary Report to His Excellence Dr. ED Mnangagwa.’’

According to Zimbabwean law, the President must cause tabling of the report to Parliament within 7 days working days of receiving it. This means he has up to the 6^th of January 2023 to table the report.

Parliament is given 14 sitting days to study the report before submitting its opinions to the President. Currently, Parliament is on adjournment to the 24^th of January.

If the results of the report are going to be used for the 2023 general elections, the finished report should have been gazetted by 31 January 2023.

Earlier this year Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) director Ellen Dingani told journalists during a Media Elections Academy on Electoral Processes that stakeholders have often been ignored when it comes to delimitation.

She highlighted that stakeholders were ignored in the 2000, 2005, and 2008 delimitation exercises.

It remains to be seen if stakeholders will accept the submitted report as there is a general feeling that ZEC ignored them when it conducted the delimitation exercise.

ZEC reportedly did not give much detail following the publishing of its delimitation roadmap. Stakeholders had hoped to get periodic updates on what was happening. #ElectionsZW

ZEC submits Delimitation Preliminary Report to Mnangagwa