{"id":2881,"date":"2016-08-16T06:52:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T04:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elections.org.zm\/?p=332"},"modified":"2020-01-10T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T10:25:08","slug":"edgar-chagwa-lungu-is-president-of-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/?p=2881","title":{"rendered":"Edgar Chagwa Lungu is President of Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elections.org.zm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-image-537231577jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/elections.org.zm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-image-537231577jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission of Zambia has announced results of the 2016 Zambian Presidential Election and His Excellency Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu and his running mate Ms. Inonge Mutukwa Wina of the Patriotic Front Party has been declared duly elected President of Zambia and Vice President respectively.<br \/>\nThe declaration was made on Wednesday the 15th of August 2016 at Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka by ECZ Chairperson and Returning Officer Mr.Justice Esau Elliot Chulu.<\/p>\n<p>President Edgar Lungu was re-elected into the office of President of Zambia \u00a0after securing over fifty-per cent of total valid votes cast with 1,860,877 votes.<\/p>\n<p><b>The full results are as follows;<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edgar Chagwa C. Lungu PF: 1,860,877<\/li>\n<li>Hakainde Hichilema UPND: 1,760,347<\/li>\n<li>Edith Z. Nawakwi FDD: \u00a024,149<\/li>\n<li>Banda Andyford PAC: 15,791<\/li>\n<li>Wynter Kabimba Rainbow: 9,504<\/li>\n<li>Saviour Chishimba UPP: 9,221<\/li>\n<li>Tilyenji Kaunda UNIP: 8,928<\/li>\n<li>Peter Sinkamba GREENS: 4,515<\/li>\n<li>Maxwell Mwamba DA: 2,378<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The results are tabulated below;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elections.org.zm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-1471322116810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-330 alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/elections.org.zm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-1471322116810.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1137\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full video of the declaration here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8rhpt10fBsI\">VIDEO OF DECLARATION OF DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8rhpt10fBsI\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lungu wins 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elections.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}