Electoral system for the president
Zimbabwe
Article 110
Determination and declaration of results of election to office of President
110.1 Where only one candidate for President is validly nominated at the close of the day on which a nomination court sits in terms of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section one hundred and three, the Chief Elections Officer shall declare such candidate to be duly elected as President without the necessity of a poll.
110.2 Where two or more candidates for President are validly nominated, a poll shall be taken in each constituency for the election of a President.
110.3 Where two or more candidates for President are nominated, and after a poll taken in terms of subsection (2) no candidate receives a majority of the total number of valid votes cast, a second election shall be held within twenty-one days after the previous election in accordance with this Act.
110.4 In a second election held in terms of subsection (3) only the two candidates who received the highest and next highest numbers of valid votes cast at the previous election shall be eligible to contest the election.
110.5 If, after a second election held in terms of subsection (3), the two candidates referred to in subsection (4), receive an equal number of votes, Parliament shall, as soon as practicable after the declaration of the result of that election, meet as an electoral college and elect one of the two candidates as President by secret ballot and without prior debate.
