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General elections were held in Botswana on 30 October 2024 to determine the composition of the 13th Parliament of Botswana as well as local councils across the country. Up for election were 61 seats of the National Assembly as well as 609 local council seats, all elected through the first-past-the-post voting system.
Constituencies in the South-East District (Botswana) (1 C, 1 P) Constituencies in the Southern District (Botswana) (5 P) Pages in category "Parliamentary constituencies of Botswana"
List of constituencies [1] [2]; Constituency Registered Voters District Current MP Party Headquarters Year Established 1: Chobe: 8,942: North-West: Ronald Shamukuni
Goodhope-Mabule was a constituency in Botswana represented in the National Assembly.After the completion of the 2022 Delimitation of Parliamentary constituencies, the seat was be subject to significant boundary changes merging with Mmathethe-Molapowabojang.
Okavango was a constituency in the North-West District. Following the completion of the 2022 Delimitation of Parliamentary constituencies, the existing seat was abolished and replaced by two new constituencies, Okavango East and Okavango West , to be first contested in the upcoming 2024 general election .
The BDP narrowly regained the constituency in 2014 by 48 votes from the BCP. In 2019, after the BCP joined the UDC, it regained the seat in the context of an opposition sweep in the North-West District. The constituency, predominantly rural, encompasses the following villages: [2] Somelo; Sehitwa; Bodibeng; Botlhatlogo; Kareng; Makakung ...
Following the 1991 census, constituency boundaries were redrawn and six new constituencies were created. Five of these were in urban areas, which was deemed to be a more realistic apportionment of constituencies; Gaborone gained three, Francistown one and Lobatse became a new constituency.
The constituency was re-established ahead of the 2014 elections and the BDP notionally held the seat. However, in the 2019 election , the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) won the seat, marking the first time an opposition party had secured victory in the seat and its predecessors, Tonota South and Tonota North.