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Jappie Mhango
Minister of Transport and Public Works; Leader of the House; MP for Rumphi North
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- Minister of Transport and Public Works
- Leader of the House
- Member of Parliament for Rumphi North
- Constituency
- Rumphi North
- District
- Rumphi
- Region
- Northern Region
- Party
- DPP Democratic Progressive Party
- In Parliament
- Elected 16 September 2025
- In office since
- January 2026
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2025 election result: Rumphi North
- Jappie Mhango DPP11,028 62.8%
- Isaac Chakaka Nyirenda MCP4,034 23%
- Maggie Tapiwa Dossi AFORD1,340 7.6%
- Wongani Mkandawire UTM933 5.3%
- Festus Vingula Mhango PP135 0.8%
Top 5 of 6 candidates.
Source: Malawi Electoral Commission
Jappie Mhango is Malawi’s Minister of Transport and Public Works, appointed on 5 January 2026. He is also the Leader of the House of Malawi’s National Assembly for the 2025 to 2030 Parliament, the minister who manages government business in Parliament.
He is an educator by background. Peter Mutharika first brought him into government in June 2014 as Deputy Minister of Defence.
In October 2023 the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) made him its Vice President for the Northern Region, after the death of Goodall Gondwe. In Mutharika’s 2025 government he started as Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development on 30 October 2025, then moved to Transport in the January 2026 reshuffle.
Jappie Mhango is the Member of Parliament for Rumphi North constituency in Rumphi district, in Malawi’s Northern Region. He sits as a member of the DPP. In the 16 September 2025 general election Mhango won the seat with 11,028 votes (62.8% of valid votes), ahead of Isaac Chakaka Nyirenda (MCP) with 4,034. 6 candidates stood.
