Heads of state of Malawi

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**Summary of the 20 May 2004 Malawi presidential election results**
Candidates	Parties	Votes	%
Bingu wa Mutharika	United Democratic Front	1,119,738	35.9
John Tembo	Malawi Congress Party	846,457	27.1
Gwanda Chakuamba	Mgwirizano Coalition	802,386	25.7
Brown Mpinganjira	National Democratic Alliance	272,172	8.7
Justin Chimera Malewezi	People's Progressive Movement	78,892	2.5
Total (turnout 54.3 %)		3,119,645	100.0
Registered voters		5,742,747

Affiliations:-
MCP = Malawi Congress Party - nationalist, authoritarian, sole legal party 1966-1993
UDF = United Democratic Front - liberal

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Malawi
6 July 1964 to 6 July 1966	Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II represented by:- Sir Glyn Smallwood Jones, Governor-General
Republic of Malawi
6 July 1966 to 21 May 1994	Hastings Kamuzu Banda, President	MCP
21 May 1994 to 20 May 2004	Bakili Muluzi, President	UDF
20 May 2004 to present	Bingu wa Mutharika, President	UDF