Cowdray Park | |
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Constituency for the National Assembly of Zimbabwe | |
Province | Bulawayo |
Region | Bulawayo |
Population | 75,000 [1] |
Major settlements | Cowdray Park |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2023 |
Seats | 1 |
Party | ZANU–PF |
Member(s) | Arthur Mujeyi |
Created from | Luveve |
Cowdray Park is a constituency of the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, located in the Cowdray Park suburb of Bulawayo. Created for the 2023 general election, it is represented since a December 2023 by-election by Arthur Mujeyi of ZANU–PF.
The suburb had a population of 75,000 people in 2022. [2] Most of the constituency is not electrified and has no working sewer system since the community's founding in the mid-2000s. [3]
The constituency was created in 2023. [4] The bulk of the seat came from the neighbouring Luveve constituency. [5]
In the 2023 election, finance minister Mthuli Ncube of ZANU–PF was defeated by Pashor Raphael Sibanda of the Citizens Coalition for Change. [6] [7]
In October 2023, Sibanda and fourteen other CCC MPs ceased being parliamentarians following a letter by Sengenzo Tshabangu, who claimed to the interim secretary-general of the CCC, in which he wrote that Sibanda and the other MPs had been expelled from the party. [8] Sibanda and the other expelled CCC MPs filed to run in the by-elections scheduled for 9 December 2023; however, the Harare High Court barred them from participating. [9]
In the 9 December 2023 by-election, ZANU–PF candidate Arthur Mujeyi defeated CCC candidate Vusumuzi Chirwa with 53% of the vote. [10]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | +/– | |
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Aurther Mujeyi | ZANU-PF | 1,765 | 53.08 | +9.44 | |
Vusumuzi Chirwa | CCC | 1,560 | 46.92 | -9.44 | |
0 | 0.00 | Barred | |||
Total | 3,325 | 100.00 | – | ||
Valid votes | 3,325 | 85.32 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 572 | 14.68 | |||
Total votes | 3,897 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 27,638 | 14.10 | |||
Majority | 205 | 6.17 | -6.55 | ||
ZANU-PF gain from CCC |
Constituency | 2018
result |
2023 winning party | Votes | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Votes | Share | Majority | ZANU | CCC | Total | ||||
Cowdray Park | [a] | CCC | 8,411 | 56.4% | 1,898 | 6,513 | 8,411 | 14,924 |
Cowdray Park | |
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Constituency for the National Assembly of Zimbabwe | |
Province | Bulawayo |
Region | Bulawayo |
Population | 75,000 [1] |
Major settlements | Cowdray Park |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2023 |
Seats | 1 |
Party | ZANU–PF |
Member(s) | Arthur Mujeyi |
Created from | Luveve |
Cowdray Park is a constituency of the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, located in the Cowdray Park suburb of Bulawayo. Created for the 2023 general election, it is represented since a December 2023 by-election by Arthur Mujeyi of ZANU–PF.
The suburb had a population of 75,000 people in 2022. [2] Most of the constituency is not electrified and has no working sewer system since the community's founding in the mid-2000s. [3]
The constituency was created in 2023. [4] The bulk of the seat came from the neighbouring Luveve constituency. [5]
In the 2023 election, finance minister Mthuli Ncube of ZANU–PF was defeated by Pashor Raphael Sibanda of the Citizens Coalition for Change. [6] [7]
In October 2023, Sibanda and fourteen other CCC MPs ceased being parliamentarians following a letter by Sengenzo Tshabangu, who claimed to the interim secretary-general of the CCC, in which he wrote that Sibanda and the other MPs had been expelled from the party. [8] Sibanda and the other expelled CCC MPs filed to run in the by-elections scheduled for 9 December 2023; however, the Harare High Court barred them from participating. [9]
In the 9 December 2023 by-election, ZANU–PF candidate Arthur Mujeyi defeated CCC candidate Vusumuzi Chirwa with 53% of the vote. [10]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aurther Mujeyi | ZANU-PF | 1,765 | 53.08 | +9.44 | |
Vusumuzi Chirwa | CCC | 1,560 | 46.92 | -9.44 | |
0 | 0.00 | Barred | |||
Total | 3,325 | 100.00 | – | ||
Valid votes | 3,325 | 85.32 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 572 | 14.68 | |||
Total votes | 3,897 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 27,638 | 14.10 | |||
Majority | 205 | 6.17 | -6.55 | ||
ZANU-PF gain from CCC |
Constituency | 2018
result |
2023 winning party | Votes | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Votes | Share | Majority | ZANU | CCC | Total | ||||
Cowdray Park | [a] | CCC | 8,411 | 56.4% | 1,898 | 6,513 | 8,411 | 14,924 |