National Election Commission (NEC)

Role/function:

• Supervise and co-ordinate registration of voters and conduct of the elections for the President, Parliamentarians and Councilors in the United Republic.

• Review boundaries and demarcate the United Republic into various areas for the purposes of Parliamentary and Councilors elections; and Compile information research and statistics.

Elections

An election in constituencies is held when the Parliament is dissolved or the seat of any Member of Parliament representing that constituency falls vacant for any reason not connected with the dissolution of Parliament. Candidates for election to a constituency are required to fulfill the following:- (a) they are proposed one each by a political party taking part in the election in that constituency; and (b) they submit their names to the NEC in accordance with the procedure laid down by a law enacted by the Parliament or procedures prescribed by the NEC in accordance with law. The election of women Members of Parliament on special seats follows this procedure. Political parties which took part in the election proposes to NEC the names of women on the basis of the proportional representation among the parties which won in the constituencies and secured are seats in the National Assembly. If NEC is satisfied that any person so proposed has the qualifications to be Member of Parliament is then declared to be an elected Member of Parliament. The House of Representative prescribes the procedures which it follows for the purpose of electing and proposing the names of the kind of Members of Parliament as specified by NEC to be followed by the political parties. The other categories of Members of Parliament are those nominated by the President and the Attorney General.

NEC Secretariat

The NEC is an autonomous department and its chief executive is the Director of Elections.

Contacts: 

Secretary to the Commission, 

NEC, 

P.O Box 10923, 

Dar es Salaam; 

Tel. +255 22 2113382, 2114963-6, 2124915 and 2124919.