Presidential elections in Zambia 2011

The presidential elections in Zambia 2011 took place on September 20, 2011 in the South African state of Zambia and ended with the victory of long-time opposition candidate Michael Sata over the country's previous president, Rupiah Banda . Michael Sata was then inducted into his new office as President on September 23, 2011.

Since Zambia made the transition to multi-party democracy with the 1991 elections and the change of power from founding president Kenneth Kaunda to the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) party , the presidents of the MMD had ruled here. Michael Sata, up to then also a member of the MMD, founded his own party, the Patriotic Front , in 2001 and ran unsuccessfully against the respective MMD candidate in all three subsequent presidential elections. The third candidate, Hakainde Hichilema from the opposition United Party for National Development, was also a candidate in 2006 and 2008. In the last presidential election, Michael Sata was defeated by just under 2%, which sparked protests and allegations of manipulation. A total of 10 candidates ran, but only the three previously named were able to collect more than 1% of the votes. Only one woman was among the candidates, Edith Nawakwi from the Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD).

Election campaign topics and content differences of the candidates

Economic policy and the fight against corruption were the dominant themes of the election campaign. Sata had long since opposed China's growing economic influence in Zambia and the working conditions in Chinese companies in the country, speaking of "slavery-like conditions" there. He had also promised to intensify the fight against corruption and democratic reforms. One commentator described the election as "the first successful anti-Chinese protest election in Africa".

Democratic standards

The EU observers of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) described the election as "generally carried out in a transparent and credible manner", but complained about the unequal access to different resources of the individual candidates, which is an advantage of the previous ruling party and its candidate was meant by the partial possibility of using state resources.

Results

Results of the presidential election in Zambia 2011
Political party		candidate	be right	%
	Patriotic front	Michael Sata	1 170 966	41.98%
	Movement for Multi-Party Democracy	Rupiah Banda	987 866	35.42%
	United Party for National Development	Hakainde Hichilema	506 763	18.17%
	Alliance for Democracy and Development	Charles Milupi	26 270	0.94%
	National Restoration Party	Elias Chipimo Jnr	10 672	0.38%
	United National Independence Party	Tilyenji Kaunda	9 950	0.36%
	Forum for Democracy and Development	Edith Nawakwi	6 833	0.24%
	National Movement for Progress	N'gandu Peter Magande	6.344	0.23%
	Heritage	Godfrey Miyanda	4 730	0.17%
	Zambians for Empowerment and Development	Frederick Mutesa	2 268	0.08%
Valid votes			2,732,662	97.93%
Invalid votes			56 678	2.03%
Total			2,789,340	100.00%
voter turnout			53.98%
Source: http://www.elections.org.zm/media/28092011_public_notice_-_2011_presidential_election_results.pdf

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1. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/23/us-zambia-election-idUSTRE78M4HY20110923 Reuters , accessed September 24, 2011
2. ↑ http://www.taz.de/Oppositionsfuehrer-wird-Praesident/!78737/ taz-Artikel, accessed on September 24, 2011
3. ↑ http://allafrica.com/stories/201109210356.html allafrica.com, accessed September 24, 2011
4. ↑ http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/09/2011922234557755338.html , Al Jazeera , accessed September 24, 2011
5. ↑ http://www.taz.de/Kommentar-Sambia/!78724/ taz author Dominik Johnson, article "The end of black and yellow" taz, September 23, 2011, accessed on September 24, 2011
6. ↑ http://www.eueom.eu/files/pressreleases/english/eueom_zambia_2011_preliminary_statement_en.pdf , PDF, accessed on September 24, 2011 /

Web links

taz -Article Vuvuzelas for Change in Zambia , September 24, 2011 Page of the Zambian Electoral Commission