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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.
Botswana is a parliamentary republic with an executive presidency operating under a multi-party system. [1] [2] [3] The first president to govern Botswana was Sir Seretse Khama. [4] The country has had 13 formal general elections since 1961, with one happening every five years. [5] [6] The recent election was held on 30 October 2024. [7]
Mmathethe-Molapowabojang was a constituency represented in the National Assembly of Botswana. [1] In the 2022 Delimitation of Parliamentary constituencies, the seat was merged with Goodhope-Mabule before the 2024 general election .
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 .
Mogoditshane West is a constituency in the Kweneng District represented in the National Assembly of Botswana. After the completion of the 2022 Delimitation of Parliamentary constituencies, the seat will be first contested at the 2024 general election .
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.
General elections were held in Botswana on 23 October 2019 to elect MPs and local government councillors. [1] Despite a high profile split in the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in May 2019 when former President Ian Khama left the party and switched his support to the new Botswana Patriotic Front, the BDP's vote share increased to almost 53% as the party won 38 of the 57 elected seats ...
The constituency was created in 2012, from the former Gaborone West South constituency. In 2014 it was won by the Umbrella for Democratic Change candidate, Ndaba Gaolathe. . In 2019, following Gaolathe's defection from UDC to found the Alliance for Progressives, [3] he lost the seat to Botswana Democratic Party candidate Christian Ntuba Greef in a three-horse ra