26 November 2005 2008 → 43 7 73.71% 20.26% | None None 449,860 123,628 Start date November 26, 2005 | |
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The Zimbabwe Senate election of 2005 was held on 26 November to elect members to the newly formed Zimbabwe Senate. There were a total of 3,239,574 registered voters, of which 631,347 or 19.5% voted. Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF won in a landslide election, garnering over 73% of the popular vote, in what was the nation's first senate elections. The elections were also boycotted by many members of the Movement for Democratic Change as a protest against the suspected election rigging of the 31 March parliamentary election earlier that year, which also saw a low voter turnout of 47.7%.
The decision by some in the MDC to contest the election led to the MDC splitting in two.After the split there was MDC T being led by Morgan Tsvangirai and MDC led by Welshman Ncube.
Presidential appointments
On 29 November 2005 it was announced that President Mugabe had appointed as Senators Kantibhai Patel, Mrs Sheila Chipo Mahere, Peter Haritatos, Aguy Clement Georgias, Tazvitya Jonathan Mapfumo and Joshua Teke Malinga.