Marondera Central

Marondera Central
Constituency for the Zimbabwean House of Assembly
Region	Marondera District
Current constituency
Created	2008 (2008)
Member(s)	Caston Matewu (MDC Alliance)

Marondera Central is a constituency of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe, covering much of Marondera, Mashonaland East Province. It was created in 2008 from territory taken from Marondera East and Marondera West. Its current Member of Parliament is Caston Matewu (MDC Alliance).

History

Marondera Central was created for the 2008 Zimbabwean general election, with territory taken from the Marondera East and Marondera West constituencies. In 2008, Iain Kay of the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai won the constituency. In 2013, Ray Kaukonde of ZANU–PF was elected. After Kaukonde was expelled from Parliament in 2013, the constituency was won by Lawrence Katsiru in a by-election.

Demographics

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
2002	54,600	—
2012	61,998	+13.5%

Marondera Central has a population of 61,998. Of the total, 28,980 are male and 33,018 are female. In 2013, the constituency had 26,888 registered voters with 65% turnout. The population is well educated, compared to the Zimbabwe average. Much of the constituents work in farming, including seasonal employment on commercial farms. The constituency is considered to generally favor ZANU–PF.

List of members

Name	Term	Party
Iain Kay	2009 – 2013	style="background-color: Template:Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai/meta/color" |	MDC–T
Ray Kaukonde	2013 – 2015	style="background-color: Template:ZANU-PF/meta/color" |	ZANU–PF
Lawrence Katsiru	2015 –	style="background-color: Template:ZANU-PF/meta/color" |	ZANU–PF

Electoral history

The following electoral data for Marondera Central comes from the Electoral Resource Centre.

General Election 2008: Marondera Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	MDC–T	Iain Kay	8,022	66.28
	ZANU–PF	Peter Murwira	3,170	26.19
	Independent	Others	844	7.53
Majority			4,852
Turnout			12,103

General Election 2013: Marondera Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	ZANU–PF	Ray Kaukonde	9,308	52.43	+26.24
	MDC–T	Iain Kay	7,892	44.45	−21.83
	MDC-M	Mandaza Kudzanai	314	1.77
	Independent	Carlos Mudzongo	112	0.64	−6.89
Majority			1,159
Turnout			17,754
	ZANU–PF gain from MDC–T		Swing	{{{swing}}}

By-Election 2015: Marondera Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	ZANU–PF	Lawrence Katsiru
	MDC–T	N/A
Majority
Turnout
	ZANU–PF hold		Swing