11 November 2009
Maputo — The final results in the 28 October general elections, announced on Wednesday by Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE), are as follows (the order of candidates is as they appeared on the ballot paper):
Presidential election
Daviz Simango (MDM): 340,579 (8.59 per cent) Armando Guebuza (Frelimo): 2,974,627 (75.00 per cent) Afonso Dhlakama (Renamo): 650,679 (16.41 per cent)
Parliamentary election
Frelimo: 2,907,335 (74.66 per cent) Renamo: 688,782 (17.68 per cent) MDM: 152,836 (3.93 per cent)
16 minor parties were on the ballot paper in one or more of the constituencies, but none of them took even as much as one per cent of the total vote. Bottom of the list was the Party of Social Democratic Reconciliation (PRDS), which took just 399 votes - 0.01 per cent.
Embarrassingly, the percentages given in the CNE document on the results are wrong, adding up to 100.61 per cent for the presidential and 100.55 per cent for the parliamentary elections. In this item, AIM has taken the liberty of correcting the CNE's mathematics.
The CNE gave the turnout for the presidential election as 44.52 per cent of the electorate of 9.8 million, and as 44.44 per cent for the parliamentary election - which suggests that a few thousand voters were only interested in voting for the president and did not accept a parliamentary ballot paper (or possibly that there have been other minor mathematical errors somewhere on the chain between the polling stations and the CNE).
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