Harare East

Harare East
National Assembly constituency for the Parliament of Zimbabwe
District	Harare
Province	Harare
Electorate	36,535 (2023)
Current constituency
Number of members	1
Party	ZANU-PF
Member	Kiven Mutimbanyoka

Harare East is a constituency represented in the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe. Located in Harare, it is currently represented since the 2023 election by Rusty Markham of the Citizens Coalition for Change.

The constituency was previously represented since the 2000 election by Tendai Biti. Biti was recalled on 17 March 2021 amid factional disputes within the opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance. ^[1] He was reelected to Parliament as a member of the newly-formed CCC in a by-election held 26 March 2022. ^[2]

Members

Election	Member	Party
1990	Margaret Dongo		ZANU–PF
1995	Tirivanhu Mudariki		ZANU–PF
2000	Tendai Biti		MDC
2005
2008			MDC–T
2013
2018			MDC Alliance
2022 by-election			CCC
2023	Rusty Markham		CCC

Elections

2022 by-election: Harare East

Candidate		Party	Votes	%	+/–
	Tendai Biti	CCC	7,534	69.79	New
	Mavis Gumbo	ZANU–PF	3,045	28.20	+1.74
	Christopher Mbanga	MDC Alliance	114	1.06	-62.38
	Garikai Mlambo	United Zimbabwe Alliance	100	0.93	New
	Rukanda Henry Gwinyai	Labour, Economists and African Democrats	3	0.03	New
Total			10,796	100.00	–
Valid votes			10,796	99.16	+0.21
Invalid/blank votes			92	0.84	-0.21
Total votes			10,888	100.00	–
Majority			4,489	41.58	+4.61
	CCC gain from MDC Alliance

Parliamentary Election 2008: Harare East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MDC–T	Tendai Biti	8,377	76.40	8.43
	ZANU–PF	Noah Mangondo	2,587	23.60	−8.43
Majority			5,790	52.81	16.87
Turnout			10,964	36.39
	MDC–T hold

See also

• List of Zimbabwean parliamentary constituencies

References

1. "The legality of 6 PDP MPs recall". NewsDay. 2021-03-24. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
2. Report on the: 26 March 2022 By-Elections (PDF). Zimbabwe Election Support Network. 2022.

Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Elections to the House of Assembly