2025 Malawian general election
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{{Infobox election
| country = Malawi
| election_date = 16 September 2025
| module = {{Infobox election
| embed = yes
| election_name = Presidential election
| type = presidential
| ongoing = yes
| previous_election = 2020 Malawian presidential election
| previous_year = 2020
| next_election =
| next_year =
| image1 = File:Secretary Blinken Meets With Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera (52389622307) (cropped).jpg
| candidate1 = Lazarus Chakwera
| party1 = Malawi Congress Party
| popular_vote1 =
| percentage1 =
| image2 = Arthur Peter Mutharika 2014 (cropped).jpg
| candidate2 = Peter Mutharika
| party2 = Democratic Progressive Party (Malawi)
| popular_vote2 =
| percentage2 =
| title = President
| before_election = Lazarus Chakwera
| before_party = Malawi Congress Party
| after_election =
| after_party =
}}}}{{Politics of Malawi}}
General elections are due to be held in Malawi on September 16, 2025.{{Cite web |title=MEC Announces dates for Voter Registration for 2025 GE |url=https://mec.org.mw/2024/09/24/mec-announces-dates-for-voter-registration-for-2025-ge/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=Malawi Electoral Commission}}
Electoral system
The President of Malawi is expected to be elected using the two-round system following the annulment of the 2019 elections and the ruling of the Supreme Court on 8 May 2020, with a candidate requiring an absolute majority of the vote to win in the first round; if no candidate passes the 50% threshold, a second round will be held. The 193 members of the National Assembly are elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies.[http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2195_B.htm Electoral system] IPU
Candidates
= Declared =
- Peter Mutharika, former president of Malawi (2014-2020).{{Cite web |date=2024-05-14 |title=Malawi ex-president Peter Mutharika to contest in 2025 elections |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/malawi-ex-president-peter-mutharika-to-contest-in-2025-elections-4622574 |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=Monitor |language=en}}
- Lazarus Chakwera, president of Malawi since 2020.{{Cite web |last=Voice |first=Malawi |date=2024-05-30 |title=Chakwera to seek re-election in 2025 |url=https://www.malawivoice.com/2024/05/30/chakwera-to-seek-re-election-in-2025/ |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=Malawi Voice |language=en-US}}
References
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{{Malawian elections}}