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Malawi’s president in the lead for re-election
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Original Publication Date: May 23, 2019 3:04AM
Publication Updated: April 20, 2025 4:06PM
BLANTYRE, Malawi – Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika has taken a lead in the election with more than 75 per cent of votes counted from the Tuesday poll.
Mutharika has 1.4 million votes while opposition Malawi Congress Party leader Lazarus Chakwera is second with 1.2 million votes and Vice-President Saulos Chilima has 651,000 votes.
More than 3.6 million out the total 6.8 million total registered voters have been counted. This is the second day of vote tabulation which shows results from 3,792 centres out of the 5,002.
“This means we have received 75.81 per cent of the total polling centres,” said Malawi Electoral Commission Chairwoman Jane Ansah. She clarified that this is not a percentage of the total registered voters but total number of polling centres.
Ansah said two polling staff members have been arrested in the lakeshore town of Mangochi for attempting to manipulate elections results.
Malawi has uses ‘first past the post’ system where whoever amasses more votes than the other becomes a winner. Mutharika won with 36 per cent of the vote in 2014 elections.
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