Ignatious Chombo

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name = Ignatious Chombo
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office = Minister of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development
term_start = July 2000
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president = Robert Mugabe
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Ignatious Morgan Chombo (born August 1 1952 [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20060929225555/www.parlzim.gov.zw/Mps_index_six/Chombo/chombo.html Page at Zimbabwean Parliament website (2006 archive)] .] ) is a Zimbabwean politician, currently serving as the Minister of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development. [ cite web|url=http://www.parlzim.gov.zw/inside.aspx?mpgid=2&spid=8|title=Parliament of Zimbabwe |accessdate=2008-02-06 ]

Chombo was nominated as ZANU-PF's candidate for the House of Assembly seat from Zvimba North, in Mashonaland West, in the March 2008 parliamentary election. [ [http://allafrica.com/stories/200802150006.html "Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF Names Poll Candidates"] , "The Herald" (allAfrica.com), February 15, 2008.] He won the seat with 6,784 votes in the initial count, defeating two candidates of the Movement for Democratic Change: Ernest Mudimu, who received 1,701 votes, and Magama Shelton, who received 944 votes. [ [http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/electoral203.17984.html "Zimbabwe election results 2008"] , newzimbabwe.com.] The MDC challenged this result, and a recount in April showed Chombo with an improved margin of victory: he gained 155 votes in the recount, Mudimu gained 13 votes, and Magama lost 28 votes. [Lebo Nkatazo, [http://newzimbabwe.com/pages/electoral247.18111.html "Zvimba North recount turns up unopened ballot boxes"] , newzimbabwe.com, April 25, 2008.]

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