Cowdray Park (constituency)
| Cowdray Park | |
|---|---|
| Constituency for the National Assembly of Zimbabwe | |
| Province | Bulawayo |
| Region | Bulawayo |
| Population | 75,000 |
| Major settlements | Cowdray Park |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2023 |
| Seats | 1 |
| Party | ZANU–PF |
| Member(s) | Arthur Mujeyi |
| Created from | Luveve |
Cowdray Park is a constituency of the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, located in the Cowdray Park suburb of Bulawayo. Created for the 2023 general election, it is represented since a December 2023 by-election by Arthur Mujeyi of ZANU–PF.
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The suburb had a population of 75,000 people in 2022. Most of the constituency is not electrified and has no working sewer system since the community's founding in the mid-2000s.
History
The constituency was created in 2023. The bulk of the seat came from the neighbouring Luveve constituency.
In the 2023 election, finance minister Mthuli Ncube of ZANU–PF was defeated by Pashor Raphael Sibanda of the Citizens Coalition for Change.
In October 2023, Sibanda and fourteen other CCC MPs ceased being parliamentarians following a letter by Sengenzo Tshabangu, who claimed to the interim secretary-general of the CCC, in which he wrote that Sibanda and the other MPs had been expelled from the party. Sibanda and the other expelled CCC MPs filed to run in the by-elections scheduled for 9 December 2023; however, the Harare High Court barred them from participating.
In the 9 December 2023 by-election, ZANU–PF candidate Arthur Mujeyi defeated CCC candidate Vusumuzi Chirwa with 53% of the vote.
Election results
2023 by-election
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurther Mujeyi | ZANU-PF | 1,765 | 53.08 | +9.44 | |
| Vusumuzi Chirwa | CCC | 1,560 | 46.92 | -9.44 | |
| 0 | 0.00 | Barred | |||
| Total | 3,325 | 100.00 | – | ||
| Valid votes | 3,325 | 85.32 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 572 | 14.68 | |||
| Total votes | 3,897 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 27,638 | 14.10 | |||
| Majority | 205 | 6.17 | -6.55 | ||
| ZANU-PF gain from CCC | |||||
2023 general election
| Constituency | 2018
result |
2023 winning party | Votes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Share | Majority | ZANU | CCC | Total | ||||
| Cowdray Park | CCC | 8,411 | 56.4% | 1,898 | 6,513 | 8,411 | 14,924 | |||