National Assembly (Lesotho)

The National Assembly is the lower chamber of Lesotho's bicameral Parliament.[1]

National Assembly Paramente ea Lesotho
10th Parliament
Type
Type	Lower House of the Parliament of Lesotho
History
Founded	April 1965
Leadership
Speaker	Sephiri Motanyane since 12 June 2017
Deputy Speaker	Teboho Lehloenya AD
Structure
Seats	120
Political groups	Government (66)   ABC: 51 seats   AD: 9 seats   BNP: 5 seats   RCL: 1 seat Opposition (54)   DC: 30 seats   LCD: 11 seats   MEC: 6 seats   Others: 7 seats
Length of term	5 years
Elections
Voting system	Mixed-member proportional representation
Last election	3 June 2017
Meeting place
Maseru, Lesotho
Website
www.parliament.ls

Composition

The current National Assembly has a total of 120 members. 80 members are elected in single member constituencies using the simple majority (or First-past-the-post) system. The remaining 40 members are elected through proportional representation and national party-lists. Members serve five-year terms.

Sephiri Motanyane is the current Speaker of the National Assembly.

Latest election

Party		Votes	%	Seats			+/–
				FPTP	PR	Total
	All Basotho Convention[lower-alpha 1]	235,729	40.52	47	1	48	+2
	Democratic Congress	150,172	25.82	26	4	30	–17
	Lesotho Congress for Democracy	52,052	8.95	1	10	11	–1
	Alliance of Democrats	42,686	7.34	1	8	9	New
	Movement for Economic Change	29,420	5.06	1	5	6	New
	Basotho National Party	23,541	4.05	0	5	5	–2
	Popular Front for Democracy	13,200	2.27	1	2	3	+1
	National Independent Party	6,375	1.10	0	1	1	0
	Reformed Congress of Lesotho	4,037	0.69	0	1	1	–1
	Basutoland Congress Party	3,458	0.59	0	1	1	0
	Democratic Party of Lesotho	2,801	0.48	0	1	1	New
	Marematlou Freedom Party	2,761	0.47	0	1	1	0
	Lesotho People's Congress	2,364	0.41	0	0	0	–1
	Basotho Democratic National Party	1,818	0.31	0	0	0	0
	Lesotho Workers' Party	1,711	0.29	0	0	0	0
	Baena	1,393	0.24	0	0	0	0
	Hamore Democratic Party	1,311	0.23	0	0	0	0
	Lekhotla la Mekhoa le Meetlo	1,024	0.18	0	0	0	0
	Majalefa Development Movement	1,024	0.18	0	0	0	New
	True Reconciliation Unity	817	0.14	0	0	0	New
	Basutoland African National Congress	684	0.12	0	0	0	0
	Tsebe Social Democrats	402	0.07	0	0	0	0
	Community Freedom Movement	322	0.06	0	0	0	0
	Basotho Thabeng ea Sinai	279	0.05	0	0	0	New
	Sankatana Social Democracy	246	0.04	0	0	0	New
	All Democratic Cooperation	170	0.03	0	0	0	0
	White Horse Party	139	0.02	0	0	0	0
	African Unity Movement	78	0.01	0	0	0	0
	IND PR	37	0.01	0	0	0	–
	Independent	1,641	0.28	0	0	0	0
Vacant[lower-alpha 1]		–	–	3	0	3	–
Invalid/blank votes		5,617	–	–	–	–	–
Total		581,692	100	80	40	120	0
Registered voters/turnout		1,253,540	46.85	–	–	–	–
Source: IEC

1. An additional three seats were won by ABC candidates, but the results in those constituencies was declared null, because candidates had died before the election.[2]

1. "National Assembly". Government of Lesotho. Archived from the original on 20 February 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
2. Final elections tally announced Lesotho Times, 6 June 2017

See also

• Senate of Lesotho - the upper chamber of Parliament
• History of Lesotho
• List of Speakers of the National Assembly of Lesotho

References

External links

• Official website