2025 Tanzanian general election

General elections were held in Tanzania on 29 October 2025 to elect the President, members of the National Assembly and ward councillors. Samia Suluhu Hassan, the incumbent president and leader of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), who became president after the death of President John Magufuli in 2021, ran for a second term.

The election campaign was considered fraudulent by foreign observers after the two largest opposition parties, Chadema and Alliance for Change and Transparency, were barred from participating earlier in 2025; this was a sharp break with recent Tanzanian history, with major opposition parties having participated in every national election since the shift to multiparty elections in 1995. On Election Day, protests began over the results of the election and the increasing authoritarianism of Suluhu. The election was by far the deadliest in Tanzanian history, with numerous sources reporting hundreds of deaths and Chadema claiming to have verified 1,000–2,000 deaths.