Hakainde Hichilema wins a second term as Zambia's president

Zambians voted to elect a president and 280 seats in the National Assembly. Incumbent president Hakainde Hichilema was running for a second term. The electoral commission later declared him the winner, re-electing him. The declaration is the result reported after the vote.

During the election, Zambian police arrested several senior opposition figures. They were accused of possessing military weapons and planning armed insurrection. Opposition leader Brian Mundubile said security forces raided his residence after voting ended. Those arrests and the raid report sit alongside the vote itself.

The presidency and the 280 assembly seats were on the same ballot. The result note that followed names the presidential winner. It does not publish a full list of assembly seats by party. It does not give Hichilema's percentage in the short declaration.

An arrest during voting is a separate fact from the count. The accusations stated are weapons and a plan for armed insurrection. The report does not say those charges were proved. It records the arrests and Mundubile's account of a raid after polls closed.

No opponent's vote share is included in the declaration note. No court had yet ruled on the arrests in these reports. The commission's act was to declare the incumbent re-elected. That is the official outcome stated.

The confirmed political sequence is a general election for president and 280 seats, arrests of senior opposition figures on the accusations described, a reported raid on Mundubile's residence, and a declaration that Hakainde Hichilema won a second term. Vote shares were not published in that declaration. The arrests remain accusations in these reports, not completed convictions.