Data · topic · Zambia 2026
Electoral process & turnout
144 of the analyzable domestic political ads in the run-up to Zambia's 2026 election touch on electoral process & turnout, with an estimated reach of ~41.4M impressions (range midpoints): 123 promotional, 11 attack.
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 · 52 ads
- UPND (United Party for National Development) · 50 ads
- The Zed Politics · 11 ads
- Democratic Union · 9 ads
- Ernest Lufunda (Ndola) · 4 ads
Sample ad text
Bally Loves, Bally Cares, Bally Delivers On the 13th of August 2026 Vote for Hakainde Hichelema and lets continue Moving Zambia Forward…
We chose peace in 2021. Let's choose it again. Vote HH. Zambia Forward Together.…
On Thursday 13 August, vote HH. Carry your NRC and voter's card, bring your people, and let's finish what we started. Zambia Forward Together.…
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.