Zambia presidential election results on Monday showed that the opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema secured a landslide victory over incumbent Edgar Lungu.

The Electoral Commission said Hichilema got over 2.8 million votes against Lungu’s who has about 1.8 million, with all but one of the 156 constituencies counted.

The Commission’s Chairman Esau Chulu in a packed results centre in the capital Lusaka declare that Hichilema to be President of Zambia.

This would make the third time that power has shifted peacefully from a ruling party to the opposition since the southern African country’s independence from Britain in 1964.

Across Zambia, celebrations broke out in the streets as Hichilema’s supporters wearing the red and yellow of his United Party for National Development, UPND danced and sang, while drivers honked their horns.