2024 Botswana general election

The 2024 Botswana general election will be held to determine the composition of the 13th Parliament of Botswana as well as local councils across the country. Up for election are 61 seats of the National Assembly as well as 490 local council seats, all elected through the first-past-the-post voting system.

2024 Botswana general election
By October 2024
61 of the 69 seats in the National Assembly
31 seats needed for a majority
Registered810,974 12.4%
 
Leader Mokgweetsi Masisi Duma Boko
Party BDP UDC
Leader's seat None Did not stand
Last election 52.65%, 38 seats 35.88%, 15 seats
Current seats 38 7
Seats needed 24
 
Leader Dumelang Saleshando Mephato Reatile
Party BCP BPF
Leader's seat Maun West Jwaneng-Mabutsane
Last election 11 seats 4.41%, 3 seats
Current seats 7 4
Seats needed 24 27
Incumbent President

Mokgweetsi Masisi
BDP


Politics of Botswana
Constitution
Government
Parliament
  • National Assembly
    Speaker: Phandu Skelemani
  • Ntlo ya Dikgosi
    (House of Chiefs)
  • Constituencies
Judiciary
Administrative divisions
Elections
Foreign relations
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs
    Minister: Vincent T. Seretse
  • Diplomatic missions of / in Botswana
  • Other countries

Since the first election in 1965, the Botswana Democratic Party has held a majority of seats, without interruption, in the National Assembly and has thus governed alone for 57 years, making Botswana a dominant-party system.

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