{"id":32292,"date":"2026-04-17T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32292"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:59:31","slug":"electoral-commission-of-zambia-rolls-out-70-new-constituencies","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/electoral-commission-of-zambia-rolls-out-70-new-constituencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Commission of Zambia rolls out 70 new constituencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_p1\">Zambia has officially announced the creation of 70 Constituencies following a delimitation process undertaken by the Elections body, the Electoral Commission of Zambia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">The creation of the new Constituencies now brings the total elective seats in Parliament to 226 from the current 156.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">It is only in four months that the country is going to choose its leaders from local government, parliamentary and Presidential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">Zambia is however still making critical changes to some electoral factors and latest is the cutting of big constituencies and creating new ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">About 70 new constituencies were being announced officially by Election&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p1\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14049,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-32292","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Zambia officially announced the creation of 70 Constituencies","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32293,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32292\/revisions\/32293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}