HARARE, April 26 (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's party has failed to win back control of Zimbabwe's parliament in a partial vote recount, results showed on Saturday.

For the first time in 28 years, the opposition had wrested a parliamentary majority from President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF in March 29 polls, triggering a recount of 23 out of 210 constituencies.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said 14 out of the 23 seats had been recounted so far, and the original result was confirmed in all of them.

Even if ZANU-PF won all the seats left in the recount, it would fall short of a majority because it had already won three of the remaining nine seats being recounted.

(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Writing by Caroline Drees; Editing by Matthew Tostevin)

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