The general elections also featured voting for city mayors, local government chairmen and councillors, as voters were handed with five ballot papers to make their choices.
Polls opened in the early hours of yesterday at the end of a violent campaign period that saw rival supporters engaged in clashes.
Analysts are predicting a tight race between President EDGAR LUNGU’s governing PF party and the opposition UPND led by HAKAINDE HICHILEMA.
It is expected that the winner of the presidential poll must earn more than fifty percent of the vote to avoid a run-off.
