Nelson Chamisa MDC Alliance 1 - 0 ZEC, As The MDC Alliance Challenges Parliamentaly Results for 20 More Constiuencies.

The Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance has forced the Zimbabwe Election Commission to eat a humble pie as the MDC Alliance proved beyond any reasonable doubt that  ZEC has serious flaws in the execution of its duties in respect of Chegutu West Constituency.

The Alliance has challenged the electoral results for 20 constituencies at the Electoral Court. The MDC Alliance also said that it was still analysing the results for other constituencies. The MDC Alliance has rejected the results for the presidential election alleging that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) colluded with Zanu-PF to rig the elections. MDC Alliance chairperson Morgen Komichi said,

We have successfully filed with the Electoral Court to challenge results in 20 constituencies, and we are still compiling evidence in some others. President Chamisa had a meeting with all parliamentary candidates on Saturday. The meeting was to learn of the candidates’ experiences in the just-ended polls. The meeting also presented an opportunity for the candidates to bring forward some of the irregular practices they observed as part of our evidence building process. We have all the evidence and we will challenge many constituencies as well, apart from the presidential polls.

Meanwhile, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has reversed the results for the Chegutu West parliamentary seat. Zanu-PF candidate Dexter Nduna had been initially announced as the winner with 10 932 votes. However, Gift Konjana of the MDC Alliance who had polled 10 828 challenged the result and was able to provide evidence that there had been counting anomalies. Zec has now declared Konjana as the winner of the Chegutu West Seat. In a letter to the MDC Alliance, Zec wrote,

RE: DISCREPANCY OF ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED IN RESPECT OF CHEGUTU WEST

The above matter refers

The source documents of the results do indicate that there is a discrepancy in results announced in respect of Konjana Gift Machoka of Chegutu West Constituency. The discrepancy occured due to a transcription error from V23A to V23B at the Constituency during data capturing.

The data capturers explained that the results of Konjana Gift Machoka (MDC Alliance) and Kache Simon (UCADGZ) were interchanged. That is, instead of capturing Kache’s results as one (1) and Konjana’s as one hundred and twenty-one (121) they were reversed giving Kache (121) and Konjana (1)



The transcription error resulted in Konjana Gift getting ten thousand eight hundred and twenty eight (10 828) votes against Nduna Dexters’s ten thousand nine hundred and thirty-two (10 932).

If the error is corrected Konjana Gift’s result would be ten thousand nine hundred and forty eight (10948) votes against Nduna Dexter’s (ZANU-PF) ten thousand nine hundred and thirty-two (10 932). This makes Konjana Gift (MDC Alliance) the winner instead of Nduna.