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Mzimba Kafukule Constituency

Malawian electoral constituency

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ136541317 ↗
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Mzimba Kafukule Constituency is a constituency for the National Assembly of Malawi, located in the Mzimba District of Malawi's Northern Region.

Description

It is one of 13 constituencies in Mzimba District. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system. The constituency has wards electing councillors for the Mzimba District.

Members of parliament

In the 2025 election there were eight candidates for the seat including candidates from the major political parties in Malawi. Madalitso Baloyi was the person chosen and she was an independent. Baloyi was made the Minister of Health after she was elected.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mzimba Kafukule Constituency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.