Data · topic · Zambia 2026
Corruption & governance
14 of the analyzable domestic political ads in the run-up to Zambia's 2026 election touch on corruption & governance, with an estimated reach of ~6.9M impressions (range midpoints): 4 promotional, 9 attack. This is one of the few topics where attacks outnumber promotion.
Scope: every domestic political ad in the archive whose creative text remains available, across election cycles. Ads can receive up to three topic labels, so topic totals overlap.
Who runs these ads
- Hakainde Hichilema · 7 ads
- The Zed Politics · 2 ads
- Choolwe Chibomba (commentator) · 2 ads
- Patrick Chikwanda (Makeni) · 1 ads
Sample ad text
Summary of UPND Media Director Mark Simuuwe's Statement (22 July 2026): · Denies FRA fraud allegations as false, malicious, and part of a coordinated disinformation campaign against him, President Hichilema, and others. · Rejects forged do…
UPND MANIFESTO: PILLAR 5 - FINANCING OUR FUTURE We made it to the final pillar. And what a pillar it is. Pillar Five of the UPND Zambia Manifesto answers the question that every serious analyst asks: where is the money coming from? Vision…
UPND MANIFESTO: PILLAR 4 - AN EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE & DELIVERY-ORIENTED PUBLIC SECTOR Pillar 4 of the UPND Zambia Manifesto may be the most important of them all. Because without this pillar, none of the others work. It is all about buildin…
Topic classification is model-assisted (measured 86% accuracy on our evaluation set) and covers only ads with available creative text. It excludes archive-withheld text, empty responses, and collection-degraded records; see methodology.