Bulawayo East

Bulawayo East
Former constituency for the National Assembly of Zimbabwe
Province	Bulawayo
Region	Bulawayo
Former constituency
Created	1939–1979; recreated 2005
Abolished	2023
Seats	1

Bulawayo East was a constituency represented in the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, located in Bulawayo. It was dissolved in the delimitation process prior to the 2023 election. Its most recent MP, elected in the 2018 election, was Ilos Nyoni of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance.^[1] Bulawayo East was also a constituency of the Parliament of Rhodesia between 1939 and 1979.

Members

Election	Name	Party
1939	John Banks Brady		United
1946	David Wood Young		United
1948	Robert Francis Halsted		United
1954	Abraham Eliezer Abrahamson		United Federal
1958
1962			Rhodesia National
1965	Joel Pincus		Rhodesian Front
1970	Elias Broomberg		Rhodesian Front
1974
1977	Charles McKenzie Scott		Rhodesian Front
Constituency abolished 1979–2005
2005	Welshman Ncube		MDC–N
2008	Thabitha Khumalo		MDC–T
2013
2018	Ilos Nyoni		MDC Alliance

Election results

Parliamentary Election 2008: Bulawayo East ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MDC–T	Thabitha Khumalo	3,587	45.09%	−36.11%
	MDC-M	Yasimin Toffa	2,525	31.74%	+31.74%
	ZANU–PF	Nacisio Makulumo	1,031	12.96%	−5.84%
	Independent	Sakiwe Ndhlovu	471	5.92%	+5.92%
	Federal Democratic Union	Dumiso Matshazi	147	1.85%	+1.85%
	Independent	Francis Takaendisa	114	1.43%	+1.43%
	UPP	Stanley Moyo	80	1.01%	+1.01%
Majority			1,062	13.35%	−49.05%
	MDC–T hold		Swing	−33.93%

Parliamentary Election 2005: Bulawayo East ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	MDC	Welshman Ncube	10,804	81.20
	ZANU–PF	Joshua Malinga	2,506	18.80
Majority			8,298	62.40%
	MDC win

See also

• List of Zimbabwean parliamentary constituencies

References

1. "MPs and Senators declared elected after 30 July 2018_harmonised elections". veritaszim.net. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
2. Carr, Adam. "Legislative Election of 2008, Elections to the House of Assembly".
3. Carr, Adam. "Legislative Election of 31 March 2005".