Tanzania President Hassan wins re-election with 98% votes

Tanzania’s electoral commission on Saturday, November 1, 2025, declared President Samia Suluhu Hassan as the winner of the presidential election.

The commissioner declared that Hassan won with nearly 98% of the votes, an election that set off violent protests across the country this week.

The result hands Hassan, who took power in 2021 after the death in office of her predecessor, a five-year term to govern the East African country of 68 million people.

Protests erupted during Wednesday’s election for president and parliament, with some demonstrators tearing down banners of Hassan and setting fire to government buildings and police firing teargas and gunshots.

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Demonstrators are angry about the electoral commission’s exclusion of Hassan’s two biggest challengers from the race and what they described as widespread repression.

Tanzania’s main opposition party told Reuters on Friday hundreds of people had been killed in the protests, while the U.N. human rights office said credible reports indicated at least 10 people were killed in three cities.

The government dismissed the opposition’s death toll as “hugely exaggerated” and has rejected criticisms of its human rights record.

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