Makoni Central is a

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represented in the

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of the

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, located in

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. Its current MP since the 2023 general election is Patrick Sagandira of the

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Electoral history

Makoni Central was a newly-created constituency in the March 2008 parliamentary election. Justice Minister

Patrick Chinamasa Patrick Antony Chinamasa (born 25 January 1947) is a Zimbabwean politician who served in the government of Zimbabwe as the minister of various cabinet ministries. Previously he served as the Minister of Finance and Investment Promotion and the ...

was the

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candidate for the seat in the 2008 election. He lost to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidate John Nyamande. Dunmore Kusano, an independent candidate, came third. In the 2018 general election, David Tekeshe of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance was elected MP for the constituency.

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20080303001109/http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/electoral159.17766.html
The Times
*https://web.archive.org/web/20080401165135/http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/news/130/ARTICLE/2020/2008-03-31.html *http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11860:election-updates&catid=31:top%20zimbabwe%20stories&Itemid=66 {{coord missing, Zimbabwe 2008 establishments in Zimbabwe Constituencies established in 2008 Makoni District Manicaland Province Parliamentary constituencies in Zimbabwe

Electoral history

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