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Post by Devonian on Oct 24, 2014 17:59:27 GMT
Polls closed about an hour ago in today's election. Counting underway
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Post by Devonian on Oct 25, 2014 14:10:28 GMT
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Post by Devonian on Oct 26, 2014 12:31:38 GMT
With 56 of the 57 constituencies declared so far the results are Botswana Democratic Party 37 Umbrella for Democratic Change 16 Botswana Congress Party 3 www.dailynews.gov.bw/news-list.php?srccategory=37This will be the BDP's 11th election victory in a row since 1965 but looks like it will be the first election where they got less than 50% of the vote.
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Post by Devonian on Oct 26, 2014 17:06:02 GMT
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Post by Devonian on Oct 27, 2014 19:31:37 GMT
Interactive map of the election results here www.electionsbotswana.org/Not entirely suprisingly there's a clear cluster of opposition held seats in and around Gaborone with the ruling party winning the bulk of the seats in the rest of the country. Six out of seven seats in the South East district that contains the capital were won by opposition parties. So were both seats in Kgatleng District to the north of the capital and four out of seven seats in the Southern District to the south of the capital. In the Kweneng District the town Mogoditshane, a suburb of Gaborone, was won by the opposition whilst both seats in the town of Molepolole 50km west of Gaborone were also won by the opposition. However the other five seats in Kweneng District were all won the the governing BDP. The BDP also won 28 of the 33 seats in the remaining six districts of Botswana.
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