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General Election · Thursday 13 August 2026

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The presidency, 226 constituencies and the first National Assembly elected under the 2025 constitutional amendments. Polls open 06:00 and close 18:00.

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The presidency

14 candidates · outright win needs >50%
50% + 1

Projection

No votes counted. A projection appears once the Electoral Commission has declared at least 20% of constituencies — before that there is no basis for one.

On probabilities. Zambia has almost no regular independent polling, so a pre-election win probability would be invention dressed as data. This dashboard projects only from declared results, and shows its working. The only published poll of the cycle is listed in the sources below.

The National Assembly

280 seats · 141 for a majority
— seats filled
Constituency seats First past the post, single member 226
Proportional seats Allocated on presidential vote share 40
Appointed & ex officio Presidential appointees, VP, Speaker, deputies 14
New this election. The old house was 156 elected seats. The 2025 amendments added 70 constituencies — announced 16 April 2026 — and created 40 proportional seats — 20 reserved for women, 15 for youth, 5 for persons with disabilities — filled from each party's share of the presidential vote rather than won locally.

Who won each constituency

Presidential vs parliamentary · 226 boundaries
Awaiting declarations

Presidential

Parliamentary

Two live maps on the new 226-constituency boundaries — left: the presidential candidate who led each constituency; right: the party that won the parliamentary seat. Grey = not yet declared; where the maps disagree, a constituency split its ticket. Replay a past election (above) animates whichever map has per-constituency data for that year — 2016 & 2021 replay both (presidential and parliamentary), 2006 & 2008 the presidential map only, 2011 the parliamentary map only. Live boundaries are the unofficial 226-ward reconstruction; replays use the 2021 set (156).

Count progress

226 constituency declarations
0declared
0%of constituencies
—turnout
—valid votes counted
Each mark is one constituency. The Commission verifies and declares from the National Results Centre; its roadmap sets verification for 15–17 August with the presidential declaration on 17 August.

Provinces

10 provinces
Set-up needed. Add each province's constituency count from the ECZ delimitation report to PROVINCES in the source. Left blank deliberately rather than guessed.

The 40 proportional seats

Allocated on presidential vote share
Allocated by largest remainder across the reserved categories. Confirm the exact formula and any qualifying threshold against the Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) Act No. 13 of 2025 before publishing — the method here is a placeholder.