Lungu beat 10 other candidates, scraping by just 1.66 per cent over the nearest rival, opposition UPND’s Hakainde Hichilema, to become Zambia’s sixth president since independence from Britain in 1964. 
Lungu aliwashinda wagombea wengine 10, akishinda kwa asilimia 1.66 mbele ya mpinzani wake mkuu, Hakainde Hichilema wa chama cha Upinzani cha UPND, na kuwa Rais wa sita wa Zambia tangu uhuru kutoka kwa Uingereza mwaka 1964.