Tanzanian elections, 2005
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Tanzania will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on 18 December 2005. Originally scheduled for 30 October, the elections were postponed due to the death of a vice-presidential candidate. These polls will be the third since the country returned to multiparty rule in 1992. They are also significant in that the incumbent President Benjamin Mkapa, who has served two consecutive terms, will step down in accordance with the constitution. Elections for the Presidency of Zanzibar and its House of Representatives will take place on 30 October, as scheduled.
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Presidential candidates
Union
- Jakaya Kikwete - Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM)
- Henry Kyara - Sauti ya Umma (SAU)
- Ibrahim Lipumba - Civic United Front (CUF)
- Emmanuel Makaidi - National League for Democracy (NLD)
- Freeman Mbowe - Chama cha Democracia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA)
- Augustine Mrema - Tanzania Labour Party (TLP)
- Christopher Mtikila - Democratic Party (DP)
- Sengondo Mvungi - National Convention for Construction and Reform-Mageuzi (NCCR-Mageuzi). He is also supported by the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD), National Reconstruction Alliance (NRA), Union for Multiparty Democracy (UMD), and United People's Democratic Party (UPDP).
- Anna Senkoro - Progressive Party of Tanzania-Maendeleo (PPT-Maendeleo)
- Leonard Shayo - Demokrasia Makini (MAKINI)
Zanzibar
- Amani Abeid Karume - Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM)
- Seif Shariff Hamad - Civic United Front (CUF)
- Mussa Haji Kitole - Jahazi Asilia
- Abdallah Ali Abdallah - Democratic Party (DP)
- Mariam Mohammed Omar - Sauti ya Umma (SAU)
- Simai Abdulrahman Abdallah - National Reconstruction Alliance (NRA)
See also
External links
- Chama Cha Mapinduzi official site (in Swahili)
- Chama cha Democracia na Maendeleo (in Swahili)
- Civic United Front official site (in English/Swahili)
- National Electoral Commission
