Cowdray Park | |
Parl Name: | National Assembly of Zimbabwe |
District Label: | Province |
District: | Bulawayo |
Region: | Bulawayo |
Population: | 75,000[1] |
Towns: | Cowdray Park |
Year: | 2023 |
Seats: | 1 |
Party: | ZANU–PF |
Member: | Arthur Mujeyi |
Previous: | Luveve |
Cowdray Park is a constituency of the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, located in the Cowdray Park suburb of Bulawayo. Created for the 2023 general election, it is represented since a December 2023 by-election by Arthur Mujeyi of ZANU–PF.
The suburb had a population of 75,000 people in 2022.[2] Most of the constituency is not electrified and has no working sewer system since the community's founding in the mid-2000s.[3]
The constituency was created in 2023.[4] The bulk of the seat came from the neighbouring Luveve constituency.[5]
In the 2023 election, finance minister Mthuli Ncube of ZANU–PF was defeated by Pashor Raphael Sibanda of the Citizens Coalition for Change.[6] [7]
In October 2023, Sibanda and fourteen other CCC MPs ceased being parliamentarians following a letter by Sengenzo Tshabangu, who claimed to the interim secretary-general of the CCC, in which he wrote that Sibanda and the other MPs had been expelled from the party.[8] Sibanda and the other expelled CCC MPs filed to run in the by-elections scheduled for 9 December 2023; however, the Harare High Court barred them from participating.[9]
In the 9 December 2023 by-election, ZANU–PF candidate Arthur Mujeyi defeated CCC candidate Vusumuzi Chirwa with 53% of the vote.[10]