What Parliament Ad Hoc Committee said about delimitation report- full report

4.1.4      POSSIBLE MISINTERPRETATION OF MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM THRESHOLDS

 (a) Wards Delimited Above Maximum Thresholds

Section 161 (6) asserts that ZEC may depart from the requirement that constituencies and wards must have equal numbers of voters, but no constituency or ward of the local authority concerned may have more than twenty per cent more of fewer registered voters than the other such constituencies or wards. The Committee noted that some wards were delimited above their thresholds.

(i) Manicaland

In Manicaland Province, Makoni RDC, Headlands Constituency, ward 8 was delimited at 3,231 above the maximum threshold of 3,185.

In Manicaland Province, Makoni RDC, Makoni West Constituency, ward 12 was delimited at 3 274 above the maximum threshold of 3,185.

In Manicaland Province, Makoni RDC, Makoni West Constituency, ward 13 was delimited at 3202 above the maximum threshold of 3,185.

In Manicaland Province, Makoni RDC, Makoni West Constituency, ward 16 was delimited at 3226 above the maximum threshold of 3,185.

(ii) Mashonaland East

In Mashonaland East Constituency, Marondera Municipality, Marondera Constituency, ward 9 was delimited at 3057 above threshold of 3051.

(iii) Mashonaland West

In Mashonaland West, Zvimba RDC, Zvimba East Constituency, ward 1 was delimited at 4,675 above the permissible maximum threshold of 3,912.

(iv) Matabeleland North

In Matabeleland North, Hwange RDC, Hwange West Constituency, ward 2 was delimited at 2267 above the maximum threshold of 2211. ZEC also used a wrong maximum threshold of 2211 instead of 2188, but the wards were still above maximum threshold of both values.

In Matabeleland North, Hwange RDC, Hwange East Constituency, ward 17 was delimited at 2213 above the maximum threshold of 2188.

In Matabeleland North, Hwange RDC, Hwange East Constituency, ward 11 was delimited at 2390 above the maximum threshold of 2188.

In Matabeleland North, Tsholotsho RDC, Tsholotsho North, ward 8 was delimited at 2096 above maximum threshold of 2086.

In Matabeleland North, Victoria Falls Municipality, Hwange West Constituency, ward 4 was delimited at 2416 above maximum threshold of 2400.

(b)     Wards Delimited Below Minimum Thresholds (i) Manicaland

In Manicaland, Makoni RDC, Makoni West Constituency, ward 25 was delimited at 2111 below the minimum threshold of 2123.

(ii) Mashonaland Central

In Mashonaland Central, Bindura Municipality, Bindura North Constituency, ward 4 was delimited at 1559 below the minimum threshold of 1570.

(iii) In Mashonaland Central, Pfura RDC, Mt. Darwin West, ward 19 was delimited at 2028 below the minimum threshold of 2033.

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