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| 1978 | Smith, Ian Douglas |  |
| Smith yields to pressure for a negotiated settlement, elections for the transitional legislature is boycotted by Patriotic Front made up of Zanu and Zapu |
| 1979 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| The Patriotic Front parties boycott the elections |
| 1979 | Nkomo, Joshua | |
| The Patriotic Front parties boycott the elections |
| 1980 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| The election is won by Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF, with Joshua Nkomo and his PF-ZAPU retaining a stronghold in the province of Matabeleland |
| ZANU allies itself with the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) in the Patriotic Front (PF), the two parties adopting the names ZANU-PF and PF-ZAPU respectively, but they split after achieving majority rule |
| Feb Wins a landslide election victory |
| 1980 | Nkomo, Joshua | |
| The election is won by Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF, with Joshua Nkomo and his PF-ZAPU retaining a stronghold in the province of Matabeleland |
| Veteran pro-independence leader Robert Mugabe and his Zanu party win British-supervised independence elections, Mugabe is named Prime Minister and includes Zapu leader Joshua Nkomo in his cabinet |
| 1987 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| 30th Dec Elected President of Zimbabwe |
| 1990 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| 1st April Wins decisive victory in presidential elections, 117 of the 120 seats |
| 1995 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| April ZANU-PF win 118 of the 120 elective seats |
| 1996 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Mar Elected President of Zimbabwe, for a 6 yr term |
| 2000 | Tsvangirai, Morgan | |
| Zanu-PF narrowly fights off a challenge from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Morgan Tsvangirai, but loses its power to change the constitution |
| 2002 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Mar Mugabe is re-elected in presidential elections condemned as seriously flawed by the opposition and foreign observers |
| Mar Mugabe wins 56.0 % at the presidential elections of 9 March - 11 March |
| Mar The Commonwealth suspends Zimbabwe from its councils for a year after concluding that elections were marred by high levels of violence |
| 2005 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Mar Ruling Zanu-PF party wins two-thirds of the votes in parliamentary polls, the main opposition party says election was rigged against it |
| 31st Mar The Zimbabwe parliamentary elections are held, the ruling ZANU-PF wins 59.6 % of the popular vote and 78 out of 120 elected seats |
| Nov The ruling Zanu-PF party wins an overwhelming majority of seats in a newly-created upper house of parliament, the Senate, the opposition MDC splits over its leader's decision to boycott the poll |
| 26th Nov The leader of the opposition MDC party says, "We are deeply disturbed by the fraudulent activities we have unearthed," and various human rights groups report hundreds of thousands of 'ghost voters' had appeared on the electoral roll of 5.8 million |
| 26th Nov The Zimbabwe parliamentary elections are held, the ruling ZANU-PF wins 43 of 50 elected senators |
| 2005 | Tsvangirai, Morgan | |
| Nov The leader of the opposition MDC party says, "We are deeply disturbed by the fraudulent activities we have unearthed," and various human rights groups report hundreds of thousands of 'ghost voters' had appeared on the electoral roll of 5.8 million |
| Nov The ruling Zanu-PF party wins an overwhelming majority of seats in a newly-created upper house of parliament, the Senate, the opposition MDC splits over its leader's decision to boycott the poll |
| 2006 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Dec The ruling ZANU-PF party approves a plan to move presidential polls from 2008 to 2010, effectively extending Mr Mugabe's rule by two years |
| 2007 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Dec Mugabe is endorsed as ZANU-PF candidate for forthcoming elections |
| 2008 | Mugabe, Robert Gabriel | |
| Mar In the 2008 parliamentary election, the ZANU-PF loses it's majority in parliament for the first time, holding 94 seats out of the expanded 210 seats |