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In Tanzania, for the fifth time since the reintroduction of multipartism, the former single party CCM (Party of the Revolution) won the October 2015 general elections with a large majority. Tanzania’s ruling party successfully remained in power by using different strategies: it managed to overcome its internal divisions; it built its presidential candidate’s popularity by drawing upon political morality; it used its networks of patronage, cooptation and surveillance of the population; and, finally, it manipulated the institutional and electoral system to its advantage. In Zanzibar, however, the faltering regime revealed its weakness when it resorted to authoritarian measures to prevent the opposition from winning. Since the annulment of its elections, the archipelago has plunged into a crisis with an uncertain outcome.