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2010 Tanzanian general election

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Field	Value
country	Tanzania
type	presidential
previous_election	2005 Tanzanian general election
previous_year	2005
election_date
next_election	2015 Tanzanian general election
next_year	2015
module	{{Infobox election
embed	yes
type	presidential
election_name	Presidential election
image1	Jakaya Kikwete with Obamas 2014 (cropped).jpg
nominee1	Jakaya Kikwete
party1	Chama Cha Mapinduzi
popular_vote1	5,276,827
percentage1	62.83%
image2	File:Willibrod Peter Slaa.jpg
nominee2	Willibrod Slaa
party2	Chadema
popular_vote2	2,271,491
percentage2	27.05%
title	President
before_election	Jakaya Kikwete
before_party	Chama Cha Mapinduzi
after_election	Jakaya Kikwete
after_party	Chama Cha Mapinduzi

General elections were held in Tanzania on 31 October 2010. The presidential elections were won by the incumbent Jakaya Kikwete of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi party (CCM), who received 63% of the vote, down from 80% in 2005. The parliamentary elections resulted in a victory for the CCM, which won 186 of the 239 elected seats in the National Assembly.

In the elections in semi-autonomous Zanzibar, Ali Mohamed Shein 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 National Assembly 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. 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

Main article: List of MPs elected in the 2010 Tanzania general election

Zanzibar

Main article: 2010 Zanzibari general election

President

House of Representatives

Aftermath

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

References

[http://www.electionguide.org/search-results.php?type=&country=211&search_year=any&submitted=1&submit.x=52&submit.y=14&submit=Search Tanzania] IFES
[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2337_E.htm Bunge (National Assembly)] IPU
[http://www.zanzibarassembly.go.tz/about_us/composition.php Composition] {{Webarchive. link. (25 April 2012 Zanzibar House of Representatives)
[http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90855/7190680.html Tanzania's re-elected president Kikwete sworn in] Xinhua, 6 November 2010

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