Overview
- Polling opened at 7:00 a.m. local time and is scheduled to close at 4:00 p.m., with counting to follow.
- Officials say preliminary results could be released within 24 hours, with up to seven days for final certification.
- President Samia Suluhu Hassan is seeking a second term as opposition leader Tundu Lissu remains jailed on treason charges and ACT‑Wazalendo’s Luhaga Mpina was barred from running.
- Reporters observed queues at several polling stations as voting got underway across the country.
- Analysts describe the incumbent as heavily favored, and Zanzibar is holding its own contest between Hussein Mwinyi and Othman Masoud after early voting on Tuesday.