Malawi general elections – An overview

The following table includes two parts. The first part shows the outcomes of all parties of the national assembly by votes per party for each election since 1994. The second part shows the participation of the electorate for each national election since 1994. This part distinguishes between the total amount of adult people and all registered voters. Latter distinction is valid for the voter turnout.

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Electoral outcome
Votes by party / election	2009	2004	1999	1994
AFORD	0,52%	3,61%	10,56%	19,05%
DPP	58,85%	–	–	–
Independence	16,67%	24,23%	7,12%	–
MAFUNDE	0,52%	–	–	–
MCP	14,06%	24,85%	33,80%	33,68%
UDF	8,85%	25,34%	47,30%	46,53%
Sum	99,47%	78,03%*	98,78%	99,26%
*21% were distributed to the parties: CONU, MGODE, NDA, PETRA, PPM and RP
Participation
Adult people	–	–		–
Registered voters	5.930.949	5.745.455	5.059.736	3.800.000
Votes cast	2.946.103	3.161.587	4.492.157	2.957.153
Voter turnout all adult people	–	–	–	–
Voter turnout registered voters	49,67%	55,03%	88,78%	77,82%

Source: MEC, EISA.