Mudzi West is a

constituency An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...

represented in the

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of the

Parliament of Zimbabwe The Parliament of Zimbabwe is the bicameral legislature of Zimbabwe composed of the Senate and the National Assembly. The Senate is the upper house, and consists of 80 members, 60 of whom are elected by proportional representation from ten six-m ...

, located in

Mudzi District Mudzi District is a Districts of Zimbabwe, district of Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe, in southern Africa. It is located in the far eastern part of Zimbabwe. It covers , all of which is communal land. As of the 2022 census, the district had a ...

Mashonaland East Province Mashonaland East, informally Mash East, is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 32,230 km2 and a population of approximately 1.73 million (2022). Marondera is the capital of the province. Demographics The province has a histo ...

. Its current MP since the 2023 election is Knowledge Kaitano of

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Mudzi West is located in

, and comprises the Shanga, Suswe, Mudzi, Musarakufa and Chiunye areas. It is a rural area.

History

In the

2000 election The following elections occurred in the year 2000. Africa * 2000 Ethiopian general election * 2000 Ghanaian presidential election * 1999–2000 Guinea-Bissau general election * 2000–01 Ivorian parliamentary election * 2000 Ivorian presidentia ...

, Ray Kaukonde of

won with 92% of the vote. In the

2005 election The following elections occurred in the year 2005. * 2005 United Nations Security Council election Africa * 2005 Burkinabé presidential election * 2005 Burundian Senate election * 2005 Burundian communal elections * 2005 Burundian constitutio ...

, Aqualinah Katsande, the ZANU–PF candidate, won with 83.6% of the vote. More than 11,000 votes in the 2005 election were not accounted for. In the 2008 election, Katsande was challenged by three other candidates, one each from the United People's Party (UPP), the

Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai The Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T) is a Centre-left politics, centre-left political party and was the main opposition party in the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe ahead of the 2018 elections. After the split of the origin ...

(MDC–T) and the

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(MDC–N). Katsande retained her seat with 9,417 votes or 72.8% of the vote. Katsande and her son were accused of

voter intimidation Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share o ...

. In the 2013 election, voters in the constituency continued to face intimidation from ZANU–PF. Again ZANU–PF candidate Aqualinah Katsande won, with her official margin of victory being 14,266 votes or 93.4% of the vote. Katsande died on 28 March 2015, and was replaced by ZANU–PF candidate Magna Mudyiwa following a 24 July 2015 by-election. In the 2018 election, Mudyiwa was reelected to represent Mudzi West. ZANU–PF's Knowledge Kaitano was elected MP for the constituency in the 2023 election.

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Mashonaland East Province Parliamentary constituencies in Zimbabwe {{Zimbabwe-geo-stub

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