Zambia: 1991 National Assembly national election results

Updated April 2021

Voting statistics

Registered voters	2 875 960
Total votes	1 305 689
% Turnout	45.40
Valid votes	1 259 136
Spoilt ballots	46 787
% Spoilt ballots	3.58

Source

Compiled from Electoral Commission of Zambia 1991.

Seat allocation

Zambia has a unicameral legislature. In terms of the Zambian Constitution 150 members of the National Assembly are elected from constituencies in first-past-the-post elections, eight members are nominated by the President and a Speaker is elected from outside Parliament by the Assembly (for more information see Zambia: Constitution).

Election results

Party	Vote	% vote	Seats	% seats
Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD)	931 945	74.01	125	83.33
United National Independence Party (UNIP)	314 711	24.99	25	16.67
Independent	9 862	0.78	0	0.00
National Democratic Alliance (NADA)	1 695	0.13	0	0.00
National Democratic Party (NDP)	803	0.06	0	0.00
Democratic Party (DP)	120	0.01	0	0.00
Total	1 259 136	99.98	150	100.00

Table source

Compiled from Electoral Commission of Zambia 1991.

Note on source and figures

Eastern Province: The Milanzi constituency's figures were duplicated by Electoral Commission of Zambia in their table and consequently included twice in all their aggregations, which in turn affected their percentages marginally.

North-Western Province: The Electoral Commission of Zambia switched the party affiliations of the candidates of Kabompo West constituency around. Thus, JS Chikwenda, who stood for UNIP was given as the MMD candidate and M Makayi who stood an the MMD platform was given as the UNIP candidate. Consequently the UNIP vote was overstated by 884 and the MMD vote was understated by the same amount.

Reference

ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF ZAMBIA 1991 "1991 Parliamentary Results by Province" IN Election Results Index, [www] http://www.elections.org.zm/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=23&Itemid=78 (offline 14 Apr 2021).