Zambia National Assembly election 2026 (226 constituencies + 40 PR seats) — Results
Election day: August 13, 2026
- UPND: 60.61%, 160 seats
- NRPUP: 28.79%, 76 seats
- Independents: 7.58%, 20 seats
- RP: 1.89%, 5 seats
- CF: 0.76%, 2 seats
- ZMP: 0.38%, 1 seats
About this election
How the vote works
The 226 constituency members are elected by plurality in single-member seats, with no threshold and no second round. Forty further seats are allocated to parties from lists submitted before the vote, in proportion to the national presidential vote, so they are settled after the national totals are known. Candidates must be at least 21; the voting age is 18.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 31.82 points separated UPND from NRPUP.
- UPND took 60.61% of the vote and 60.15% of the seats (160 of 266) — almost exactly proportional.
- The top two shared 89.40% of the vote between them, and 3 lists cleared 5%.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts