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I'm Bartłomiej Paruzel, and I built ElectioMap to map national elections around the world. This is the Zambia hub on ElectioMap. Zambia's next national vote is coming up — this hub previews it, and on election night its page will carry the official results as they are announced.
Zambia is a presidential republic in Southern Africa and one of the region's more competitive multi-party democracies. The president is directly elected for a five-year term and, under the 2016 constitutional amendments, must win more than 50% of the vote, with a run-off if no candidate clears that bar. The 167-seat National Assembly is made up of 156 directly elected members chosen by first-past-the-post in single-member constituencies, plus up to eight presidential nominees and the Speaker. Zambia has seen several peaceful transfers of power since the return of multi-party politics in 1991. In the August 2021 general election Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) decisively defeated the incumbent Edgar Lungu of the Patriotic Front (PF), the third time the ruling party had changed at the ballot box. Zambia's economy depends heavily on copper mining; the country defaulted on its external debt in 2020 and has since pursued an IMF-backed restructuring. Key challenges include debt sustainability, youth unemployment, and drought that has cut hydropower output. The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ, elections.org.zm) administers the general elections, which simultaneously fill the presidency, the National Assembly and local council seats. The next general election is due in 2026.
Each election listed here has its own page with the full breakdown by party or candidate and an interactive map of the result.
Every figure on ElectioMap is taken from the official electoral authority for Zambia — the national election commission or equivalent body that certifies the count. I enter vote and turnout percentages exactly as published, to two decimal places and without rounding, and show seat totals wherever a chamber is being filled. When ElectioMap covers an election live, the page updates automatically as official figures are released. For the full sourcing and update policy, see Data & Methodology and the Editorial Policy.
The next national election ElectioMap is tracking in Zambia is the Presidential & Parliamentary 2026, scheduled for Aug 13, 2026. Live results will appear on its page as soon as counting begins.
All Zambia figures come from the official electoral authority that certifies the count, entered exactly as published to two decimal places. See the Data & Methodology page for the full sourcing and update policy.
Where the electoral authority publishes an official regional breakdown, the Zambia election page includes an interactive map — click a region to see how each party or candidate performed there. Where no official per-region data exists, the page shows the certified national result and says so.