2010 Tanzanian general election

none October 2023 September 2020 Tanzania presidential 2005 Tanzanian general election 2005 2010 10 31 yes 2015 Tanzanian general election 2015 yes presidential Presidential election Jakaya Kikwete with Obamas 2014 (cropped).jpg Jakaya Kikwete Chama Cha Mapinduzi 5,276,827 62.83% File:Willibrod Peter Slaa.jpg Willibrod Slaa Chadema 2,271,491 27.05% President Jakaya Kikwete Chama Cha Mapinduzi Jakaya Kikwete Chama Cha Mapinduzi General elections were held in Tanzania on 31 October 2010.Tanzania IFES The presidential elections were won by the incumbent Jakaya Kikwete of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi party (CCM), who received 63% of the vote, down from 80% in 2005. The parliamentary elections resulted in a victory for the CCM, which won 186 of the 239 elected seats in the National Assembly. In the elections in semi-autonomous Zanzibar, Ali Mohamed Shein of the CCM won the presidential election, whilst the CCM also won the most seats in the House of Representatives. Electoral system For the 2010 elections, the National Assembly had 317 members, of which 239 (up from 232) were elected by plurality voting in single-member constituencies, 102 were reserved for women, five elected by the House of Representatives of Zanzibar and up to seven appointed by the president.Bunge (National Assembly) IPU The Attorney General is also a member of the Assembly. The Zanzibar House of Representatives had 50 elected members, ten appointed by the President, and 15 seats for women. The women's seats were assigned to parties which won seats in the House, and distributed in proportion to the number of seats held by each party.Composition https://web.archive.org/web/20120425122730/http://www.zanzibarassembly.go.tz/about_us/composition.php 25 April 2012 Zanzibar House of Representatives The House also had six ex officio members, the Attorney General and five Regional Commissioners. Results President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Chama Cha Mapinduzi 5276827 Willibrod Slaa Chadema 2271491 Ibrahim Haruna Lipumba Civic United Front 695667 Peter Mziray Kuga Progressive Party of Tanzania – Maendeleo 96932 Hashim Spunda Rungwe NCCR–Mageuzi 26388 Muttamwega Bhatt Mgaywan Tanzania Labour Party 17482 Yahmi Nassoro Dovutwa United People's Democratic Party 13176 227889 20137303 African Elections Database National Assembly List of MPs elected in the 2010 Tanzania general election File:Tanzanian National Assembly 2010.svg Constituency Women Total +/– Chama Cha Mapinduzi 4641830 186 67 253 –11 Chadema 1839569 23 25 48 +37 Civic United Front 818122 24 10 34 +4 NCCR–Mageuzi 193738 4 0 4 +4 United Democratic Party 113148 1 0 1 0 Tanzania Labour Party 51003 1 0 1 0 National League for Democracy 14511 0 0 0 0 Democratic Party 6412 0 0 0 0 Progressive Party of Tanzania – Maendeleo 5727 0 0 0 0 United People's Democratic Party 4781 0 0 0 0 Association of Farmers Party 4442 0 0 0 New Jahazi Asilia 3972 0 0 0 0 Sauti ya Umma 3712 0 0 0 0 Chama cha Haki na Ustawi 2483 0 0 0 0 Demokrasia Makini 2376 0 0 0 0 Tanzania Democratic Alliance 2146 0 0 0 0 National Reconstruction Alliance 1375 0 0 0 0 Union for Multiparty Democracy 1102 0 0 0 0 Presidential appointees – – 10 0 Elected by Zanzibar House of Representatives – – 5 0 Attorney-General – – 1 0 285476 239 102 357 +34 20137303 National Electoral Commission, IPU Zanzibar 2010 Zanzibari general election President Ali Mohamed Shein Chama Cha Mapinduzi 179809 Seif Sharif Hamad Civic United Front 176338 Kassim Bakari Ali Jahazi Asilia 803 Haji Khamis Haji National Reconstruction Alliance 525 Juma Ali Khatib Tanzania Democratic Alliance 497 Said Soud Said Association of Farmers Party 480 Ambar Haji Khamis NCCR–Mageuzi 363 6109 407658 African Elections Database House of Representatives Constituency Women Total Chama Cha Mapinduzi 178091 28 11 39 Civic United Front 168082 22 9 31 Jahazi Asilia 3567 0 0 0 Chadema 2175 0 0 0 NCCR–Mageuzi 1046 0 0 0 Tanzania Democratic Alliance 651 0 0 0 Tanzania Labour Party 267 0 0 0 Sauti ya Umma 160 0 0 0 National Reconstruction Alliance 111 0 0 0 Association of Farmers Party 91 0 0 0 Demokrasia Makini 84 0 0 0 Democratic Party 61 0 0 0 Appointed – – 10 Speaker and Attorney General – – 2 50 20 82 407658 African Elections Database Aftermath Kikwete's swearing-in ceremony took place on 6 November 2010 at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam.Tanzania's re-elected president Kikwete sworn in Xinhua, 6 November 2010 See also Salum Khalfani Bar'wan, a member of the Civic United Front elected from the Lindi Urban constituency; the first person with albinism elected to the National Assembly of Tanzania. References Category:Presidential elections in Tanzania Category:Parliamentary elections in Tanzania Tanzania Tanzania Category:October 2010 elections Category:October 2010 in Africa