The Lupane East parliamentary by-election was yesterday marred by low voter turnout.
Matabeleland provincial elections officer, Mark Ndlovu told The Standard that results were expected this morning in the constituency with 20 495 registered voters and where nine candidates were battling it out to replace the late Zanu PF MP Sithembile Gumbo
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chief elections officer Utloile Silaigwana also said everything went according to plan and urged all participating political parties and individuals to accept results.
“We have observed as Zec that there has been a general interest in the number of participates due to Zec’s best practices we came out with a multi-party liaison committee, which is a problem solving platform for all the candidates,” he said.
“This also includes the piloting of the voters roll, which was meant for people to check their names in the voters roll two days before the election day to avoid the number of those turned away.’’
BY NIZBERT MOYO
