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Preliminary results: Frelimo winning, gains for Renamo – AIM report, Mozambique Elections
12:37 CAT | 11 Oct 2018
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Preliminary results from Wednesday’s municipal elections indicate that Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo Party has won in most of the municipalities.
The main loser in the elections is the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), which lost the city of Quelimane to the main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, and lost the town of Gurue to Frelimo by a slim margin. However, the MDM, and its leader, Daviz Simango, seems to have held onto the jewel in their crown, the central city of Beira.
Renamo has consolidated its hold on the northern city of Nampula, which it first won in a by-election in March. The current indications are that it has also taken the town of Alto Molocue, in the central province of Zambezia, from Frelimo. Renamo has certainly displaced the MDM as the main opposition in most Frelimo-held municipalities. This is a natural result of the fact that Renamo boycotted the 2013 municipal election, which meant that in that year the entire opposition vote was concentrated on the MDM.
The preliminary results announced by the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), and published by the independent television station STV, include the following:
Niassa province
Lichinga (17 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 19,509
Renamo: 13,866
MDM: 965
Metangula (100 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 5,028
Renamo: 2,643
MDM: 117
Mandimba (100 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 4,318
Renamo: 2,938
MDM: 267
Marrupa (86 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 3,052
Renamo: 855
MDM: 400
Zambezia province
Quelimane (17 per cent of votes processed)
Renamo: 7,497
Frelimo: 6,008
MDM: 673
Alto Molocue (92 per cent of votes processed)
Renamo: 8,324
Frelimo: 7,222
MDM: 885
Gurue (92 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 12,507
MDM: 10,601
Renamo: 1,200
Milange (100 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 8,716
Renamo: 6,204
MDM: 402
Maganja da Costa (100 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 5,730
Renamo: 4,526
MDM: 606
Tete province
Ulongue (70 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 4,206
Renamo: 2,806
MDM: 253
Nhamayabue (100 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 4,403
Renamo: 1,817
MDM: 159
Manica province
Chimoio (25 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 12,117
Renamo: 11,632
MDM: 669
Sofala province
Gorongosa (100 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 8,470
Renamo: 2,411
MDM: 857
Maputo province:
Matola (11 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 17,322
Renamo: 16,150
MDM: 1,495
Namaacha (100 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 4,813
Renamo: 599
MDM: 221
Boane (25 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 4,333
Renamo: 1,030
MDM: 343
Manhiça (39 per cent of votes processed)
Frelimo: 7,654
Renamo: 2,469
MDM: 1,004
Source: AIM
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