General elections were held in

Tanzania Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to t ...

on 31 October 2010. The presidential elections were won by the incumbent

Jakaya Kikwete Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (born 7 October 1950) is a Tanzanian politician who was the List of Presidents of Tanzania, fourth president of Tanzania, in office from 2005 to 2015. Prior to his election as president, he was the Ministry of Foreign Aff ...

of the

Chama Cha Mapinduzi The Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM, ) is the dominant, ruling party in Tanzania and the second longest-ruling party in the history of Africa, only after the True Whig Party of Liberia. It was formed in 1977, following the merger of the Tanganyika A ...

party (CCM), who received 63% of the vote, down from 80% in

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. The parliamentary elections resulted in a victory for the CCM, which won 186 of the 239 elected seats in the

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. In the elections in semi-autonomous

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of the CCM won the presidential election, whilst the CCM also won the most seats in the House of Representatives.

Electoral system

For the 2010 elections, the

had 317 members, of which 239 (up from 232) were elected by plurality voting in single-member constituencies, 102 were reserved for women, five elected by the House of Representatives of Zanzibar and up to seven appointed by the president.Bunge (National Assembly)
IPU The Attorney General is also a member of the Assembly. The Zanzibar House of Representatives had 50 elected members, ten appointed by the President, and 15 seats for women. The women's seats were assigned to parties which won seats in the House, and distributed in proportion to the number of seats held by each party. The House also had six ''ex officio'' members, the Attorney General and five Regional Commissioners.

Results

President

National Assembly

Zanzibar

President

House of Representatives

Aftermath

Kikwete's swearing-in ceremony took place on 6 November 2010 at the National Stadium in

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.Tanzania's re-elected president Kikwete sworn in
Xinhua, 6 November 2010

References

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Electoral system

Results

President

National Assembly

Zanzibar

President

House of Representatives

Aftermath

See also

References