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Lesotho General election Dates 2017

Lesotho General election Date: 3 June 2017

Early general elections will be held in Lesotho on 3 June 2017 to elect all 120 seats of the National Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament. The elections will be more than three years ahead of schedule due to a successful vote of no confidence against the incumbent Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili.

After three years out of power, Pakalitha Mosisili returned to office as Prime Minister in the February 2015 general election as leader of the Democratic Congress, defeating Prime Minister Tom Thabane of the All Basotho Convention. However, in November 2016 an agreement was announced between the deputy leader of the Democratic Congress, Monyane Moleleki, and Tom Thabane to remove Mosisili and install Moleleki as Prime Minister. Moleleki was suspended from the Democratic Congress in December 2016 and launched a new party, the Alliance of Democrats, in January 2017.

On 12 February 2017 Thabane returned to Lesotho from self-imposed exile, declaring that Prime Minister Mosisili no longer commanded a parliamentary majority and vowing to oust him in a vote of no confidence. He claimed that he was risking his life by returning.
The new opposition alliance defeated Mosisili in a vote of no confidence on 1 March 2017 and proposed Moleleki as the new Prime Minister; Mosisili, faced with the choice of stepping aside in favor of Moleleki or calling an early election, chose the latter. He advised King Letsie III to dissolve Parliament, and the King did so on 7 March, despite an opposition effort to obstruct the move. It was announced on 13 March that an early election would be held on 3 June 2017

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Lesotho General election Voting Live 2017 

General elections would take place live on 3rd June 2017.

All 120 seats in the National Assembly
61 seats needed for a majority

Voting closes at 1500 GMT, with counting expected to take several days.
Lesotho is a constitutional monarchy ruled by King Letsie III, who has no formal power, and it has a mixed parliamentary system.
 1.2 million people have registered to vote

 

Lesotho General election Results Live 2017

Party	Votes	%	Seats
			Constituency	PR	Total
All Basotho Convention	235729	40.52	47	1	48
Democratic Congress	150172	25.82	26	4	30
Lesotho Congress for Democracy	52052	8.95	1	10	11
Alliance of Democrats	42686	7.34	1	8	9
Movement for Economic Change	29420	5.06	1	5	6
Basotho National Party	23541	4.05	0	5	5
Popular Front for Democracy	13200	2.27	1	2	3
National Independent Party	6375	1.1	0	1	1
Reformed Congress of Lesotho	4037	0.69	0	1	1
Basutoland Congress Party	3458	0.59	0	1	1
Democratic Party of Lesotho	2801	0.48	0	1	1
Marematlou Freedom Party	2761	0.47	0	1	1
Total	5,81,692	100	80	40	120
Registered voters/turnout	12,53,540	46.85	–	–	–

Electoral system of Lesotho

The 120 members of the National Assembly are elected using the mixed-member proportional representation system, with voters casting a single vote. Eighty members are elected from single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting, with the remaining 40 elected from a single nationwide constituency in a closed list as leveling seats. The votes from every constituency are totalled (with votes cast for independent candidates ignored) to give a nationwide total for each party. A quota of the 120 total seats in the National Assembly is then calculated using each party's vote share and the number of seats won in constituencies is deducted in order to give the number of the 40 leveling seats that a party is due. If the total number of seats due to be awarded is less than 120, the highest remainder method is used to distribute the remaining leveling seats

 

 

Candidates for General election 2017

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