Electoral Commission Stories

The winning candidate from the National Unity Platform, Naukoola Luyimbazi, won with 17,764 votes in the heated by-election that also saw journalists...

Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, a prominent figure in Namibia's ruling SWAPO party, won the election with 57% of the vote, totaling 638,560 ballots.

This was the first time that President Samia Suluhu Hassan's popularity was tested on the ballot.

SWAPO candidate and current vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah could become Namibia’s first female president,

In the Elections Offences (Amendment) Bill of 2024 is a proposal for electoral commission officials found guilty of committing offences to be punished...

The result means that the ANC must now share power, likely with a major political rival, in order to keep it - an unprecedented prospect in South Afri...

The ANC has lost its outright majority in parliament for the first time since it came to power after apartheid. In the previous election in 2019, the...

The seats became open after a self-proclaimed interim secretary general of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Sengezo Tshabangu, orch...

Chadema leader Freeman Mbowe called the proposals "cosmetic" and particular opposition has been directed at a measure that would allow President Samia...