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General Election
Third Republic
2001 General Election
A multiparty general election. Parliament records MMD winning 69 National Assembly seats, UPND 49, and UNIP 13, with the remaining seats shared among other parties and an independent. ECZ publishes the presidential final results.
Archived
: Election status from the public election record.
Unverified
: This record has not yet been verified.
Election outcome
How the election was won
President elected
Levy Mwanawasa
Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD)
- Registered voters
- 2,604,761
- Votes cast
- 1,791,199
- Turnout
- 68.77%
Key facts at a glance
President elected
Levy Mwanawasa
MMD parliamentary seats
69
UPND parliamentary seats
49
Recorded parliamentary turnout
68.77%
What was happening before the election
President Frederick Chiluba did not stand for another term. The election produced a closely divided political landscape, with parliamentary representation spread across several parties.
How the election worked
The presidency was decided by plurality under the rules then in force. National Assembly members were elected in constituencies using first-past-the-post.
How the outcome was decided
Levy Mwanawasa of MMD was elected Zambia’s third Republican President. ECZ publishes the presidential final results, but this page currently displays only national participation figures directly verified from the linked official parliamentary-results summary.
What happened in Parliament
MMD won 69 seats, UPND 49, UNIP 13, FDD 12, Heritage Party 4, ZRP 1, PF 1 and an independent 1. ECZ records 1,752,524 valid parliamentary votes and 38,675 rejected ballots.
Why this election mattered
The election brought Levy Mwanawasa to the presidency and produced a much more competitive National Assembly than the large MMD majorities of the 1990s.