Zimbabwean Senate election, 2005
- Zimbabwean Senate election, 2005
Infobox Election
election_name = Zimbabwean Senate election, 2005
country = Zimbabwe
type = legislative
ongoing = no
previous_election =
previous_year =
next_election = Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008
next_year = 2008
seats_for_election = 50 (of the 66) seats in the Senate of Zimbabwe
election_date = November 26, 2005
leader2 = Gibson Sibanda
party2 = Movement for Democratic Change
leaders_seat2 = "none"
last_election2 = —
seats2 = 7
seat_change2 =
popular_vote2 = 123,628
percentage2 = 20.26%
leader1 = Robert Mugabe
party1 = Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front
leaders_seat1 = "None"
last_election1 = —
seats1 = 43
seat_change1 =
popular_vote1 = 449,860
percentage1 = 73.71%
The Zimbabwe Senate election of 2005 was held on November 26 to elect members to the newly formed Zimbabwe Senate. There were a total of 3,239,574 registered voters, of which 631,347 or 19.5% voted. Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF won in a landslide election, garnering over 73% of the popular vote, in what was the nation's first senate elections. The elections were also boycotted by many members of the Movement for Democratic Change as a protest against the suspected election rigging of the March 31 parliamentary election earlier that year, which also saw a low voter turnout of 47.7%.
The decision by some in the MDC to contest the election lead to the MDC spliting in two
Election results
Presidential appointments
On 29 November 2005 it was announced that President Mugabe had appointed as Senators Kantibhai Patel, Mrs Sheila Chipo Mahere, Peter Haritatos, Aguy Clement Georgias, Tazvitya Jonathan Mapfumo and Joshua Teke Malinga.
Constituency results
ee also
*List of political parties in Zimbabwe
*Zimbabwe House of Assembly
External links
*http://africanelections.tripod.com/zw.html#2005_Senate_Election
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