Chikwawa District
Chikwawa is a district in the Southern Region of Malawi. The capital is Chikwawa. The district covers an area of 4,755 km² and has a population of 356,682.
Demographics
At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of Chikwawa District by ethnic group was as follows:[1]
- 48.6% Sena
- 30.6% Mang'anja
- 7.4% Chewa
- 7.3% Lomwe
- 1.4% Ngoni
- 1.1% Yao
- 0.4% Tumbuka
- 0.3% Tonga
- 0.1% Nyanja
- 0.1% Nkhonde
- 0.0% Sukwa
- 0.0% Lambya
- 2.6% Others
Government and administrative divisions
There are seven National Assembly constituencies in Chikwawa:
- Chikwawa - East
- Chikwawa - Central
- Chikwawa - Nkombezi
- Chikwawa - North
- Chikwawa - South
- Chikwawa - West
- Chikwawa - Central West
Central West is new and comprises the wards Nchalo and Lengwe.
At the 2009 general election all of these constituencies were represented by politicians from the Democratic Progressive Party.[2]
In 2024 the MP for Chikwawa West Constituency was Susan Dossi.[3]
References
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- ↑ 2018 Malawi Population and Housing Census Main Report
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