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The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) is a social democratic political party in Botswana. Founded in 1998 as a result of a split from the Botswana National Front (BNF), the party attracted most of the BNF's sitting MPs due to a leadership dispute involving the BNF's leader, Kenneth Koma .
The 12th Parliament of Botswana was the meeting of the National Assembly, the unicameral legislature of the Parliament of Botswana, with the membership determined by the results of the general election held on 23 October 2019. The legislature convened for the first time on 5 November 2019 and was dissolved on the 5th of September 2024.
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 and was won by the BCP in 2024. The constituency, predominantly rural, encompasses the following villages: [1] Gumare; Etsha 1; Etsha 6 ...
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The constituency was created in 2002 with the division of Maun/Chobe into three constituencies (Maun West, Maun East and Chobe). Since its creation Chobe has mainly voted for BDP candidates, except in 2009, when it voted for the BCP.
Since that is in general a stronghold for the opposition parties, first the BNF and later the BCP, becoming the seat of its leader, Dumelang Saleshando, from 2004 to 2014. [2] Since its creation the BDP has only won the constituency twice ( 1999 and 2019 ) in both with less than 50% of the votes.
Keorapetse was re-elected in 2019 with 59.1% of the vote. [4] In 2022, he challenged Dumelang Saleshando for the role of Leader of the Opposition (LOO). He was successful and received the position, but him and four other BCP members were then expelled from the party for defying the BCP Central Committee in getting him the role.
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. This win aligned with the broader success the UDC achieved in the northern parts of Botswana during the 2019 election.