FACTBOX: Facts on Zimbabwe's voting process
(Reuters) - Following are some key facts on Zimbabwe's elections.
* Voting in presidential, parliamentary and local government elections will be held on March 29. The day is declared a public holiday.
* The 8,998 polling stations will open at 7 a.m. (1 a.m. EDT) and close at 7 p.m.
* Zimbabwe has a total of 5,934,768 registered voters from a population estimated at over 13 million.
* At stake in the parliamentary election are 210 House of Assembly seats and 60 seats in the Senate, the upper house.
* Vote counting starts immediately after polls close. Parliamentary results will be announced in constituency centres and the presidential result in the capital Harare.
* The main election observer mission is from the Southern African Development Community. Monitors from Western countries critical of Mugabe were barred.
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