Lilongwe — Latest electoral results from 20 constituencies indicate that Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) presidential candidate, Bingu wa Mutharika, continues to consolidate his earlier lead.

Results announced by Electoral Commission (EC) chairperson, Anastasia Msosa, show that, out of 20 constituencies tallied, Mutharika was convincingly leading in 19 constituencies while John Tembo of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP)/United Democratic Front alliance beat Mutharika to the votes in Mangochi Central constituency.

In Mangochi Central, Tembo got 22, 202 votes against Mutharika's 10,172 , the only landslide victory recorded by the MCP/UDF alliance torch-bearer. Mangochi is part of UDF green belt.

Results for Mulanje Central, Chiradzulu South, Mulanje North, Ntchisi North, Chiradzulu North, Chiradzulu East, Chiradzulu West, Kasungu North East, Chikwawa North, Blantyre Kabula, Mwanza Central, among other areas, have seen Mutharika create a 10,000 votes leads on average.

In Mulanje West, for instance, the DPP candidate got 16, 390 votes aginst Tembo's 2608; in Blantyre City South 29, 124 against the UDF/MCP candidate's 6, 838; while in Blantyre Bangwe results indicate he got 14, 246 votes against Tembo's 4320.

In Mwanza West, Mutharika got 12, 588 votes against his main contender's 1, 088 ballots. Blantyre South West registered similar results, Mutharika getting 18, 031 against Tembo's 3, 163- results replicated in Chikwawa North, where Mutharika has 15, 205 against Tembo's 1, 565 votes.

According to Msosa, next results' announcement comes at 11:00pm.

Malawians are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the results, against a background Tembo has threatened not to accept poll results citing what he terms as 'electoral irregularities'.