{"id":17609,"date":"2020-10-29T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=17609"},"modified":"2020-10-29T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:50:07","slug":"magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results","title":{"rendered":"MAGUFULI TAKES LEAD AS ELECTORAL BODY ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> President John Magufuli took early lead in Presidential election as the National Electoral Commission (NEC) started announcing provision on Thursday.<\/p>\n

According to the preliminary results from 16 constituencies announced NEC\u2019s chairman Judge (Rtd), Semistocles Kaijage, the CCM candidate was leading, followed by opposition Chadema\u2019s candidate Tundu Lissu.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, NEC announced preliminary results from 12 and Dr John Magufuli was ahead of other 14 presidential candidates.<\/p>\n

Some few minutes later, the commission announced results from other four constituencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Tanzania: President John Magufuli took early lead in Presidential election as the National Electoral Commission (NEC) started announcing provision on Thursday. According to the preliminary results from 16 constituencies announced NEC\u2019s chairman Judge (Rtd), Semistocles Kaijage, the CCM candidate was leading, followed by opposition Chadema\u2019s candidate Tundu Lissu. Earlier today, NEC announced preliminary results from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,6288],"tags":[24,541],"class_list":["post-17609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-presidential-election-octobre-2020","tag-john-magufuli","tag-nec"],"yoast_head":"\nMAGUFULI TAKES LEAD AS ELECTORAL BODY ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President John Magufuli took early lead in Presidential election as the National Electoral Commission (NEC) started announcing provision\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MAGUFULI TAKES LEAD AS ELECTORAL BODY ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President John Magufuli took early lead in Presidential election as the National Electoral Commission (NEC) started announcing provision\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-29T19:50:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/4607bed3daa55816bebb6e32d8041a5e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"836\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"MAGUFULI TAKES LEAD AS ELECTORAL BODY ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-29T19:50:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results\"},\"wordCount\":87,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/4607bed3daa55816bebb6e32d8041a5e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"John Magufuli\",\"NEC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"presidential election octobre 2020\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results\",\"name\":\"MAGUFULI TAKES LEAD AS ELECTORAL BODY ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS - Tanzania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/4607bed3daa55816bebb6e32d8041a5e.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-29T19:50:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"President John Magufuli took early lead in Presidential election as the National Electoral Commission (NEC) started announcing provision\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/4607bed3daa55816bebb6e32d8041a5e.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/4607bed3daa55816bebb6e32d8041a5e.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":836},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"MAGUFULI TAKES LEAD AS ELECTORAL BODY ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\",\"name\":\"Tanzania\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"MAGUFULI TAKES LEAD AS ELECTORAL BODY ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS - Tanzania","description":"President John Magufuli took early lead in Presidential election as the National Electoral Commission (NEC) started announcing provision","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"MAGUFULI TAKES LEAD AS ELECTORAL BODY ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS","og_description":"President John Magufuli took early lead in Presidential election as the National Electoral Commission (NEC) started announcing provision","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results","og_site_name":"Tanzania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2020-10-29T19:50:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":836,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/4607bed3daa55816bebb6e32d8041a5e.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"MAGUFULI TAKES LEAD AS ELECTORAL BODY ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS","datePublished":"2020-10-29T19:50:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results"},"wordCount":87,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/4607bed3daa55816bebb6e32d8041a5e.jpg","keywords":["John Magufuli","NEC"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","policy","presidential election octobre 2020"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results","name":"MAGUFULI TAKES LEAD AS ELECTORAL BODY ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS - Tanzania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/4607bed3daa55816bebb6e32d8041a5e.jpg","datePublished":"2020-10-29T19:50:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"President John Magufuli took early lead in Presidential election as the National Electoral Commission (NEC) started announcing provision","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/4607bed3daa55816bebb6e32d8041a5e.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/4607bed3daa55816bebb6e32d8041a5e.jpg","width":1024,"height":836},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-takes-lead-as-electoral-body-announces-preliminary-results#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"MAGUFULI TAKES LEAD AS ELECTORAL BODY ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY RESULTS"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/","name":"Tanzania","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}