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Okavango (Botswana constituency)

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, first contested at the 2024 general election.

Constituency profile

The Okavango constituency was located in the north of North-West District and existed with the majority of its boundaries intact from the first inaugural elections in 1965 until 2024, making it one of the longest-running constituencies in Botswana's electoral history.

Throughout its existence, Okavango has generally remained an opposition stronghold and the region that has voted the least for the BDP since Botswana's independence (the party only won the constituency in 1965, 1979 and 2004). Between 1969 and 1979 it was represented by the BIP, between 1984 and 1999 by the BNF and from 1999 to 2024 it voted mostly for BCP candidates. In 2022, the delimitation commission recommended the division of Okavango into two constituencies, abolishing the constituency.

The constituency, predominantly rural, encompassed the following villages:

  1. Ikoga
  2. Sepopa
  3. Nxamasere
  4. Samochema
  5. Shakawe
  6. Gani
  7. Mohembo East
  8. Tsodilo
  9. Chukumuchu
  10. Nxauxau
  11. Tobera
  12. Mohembo West
  13. Kauxwi
  14. Xakao
  15. Sekondomboro
  16. Nkarange
  17. Mogotlho
  18. Seronga
  19. Gonutsuga
  20. Eretsha
  21. Beetsha
  22. Gudigwa

Members of Parliament

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Election results

2019 election

2014 election

2009 election

2004 election

1999 election

1994 election

1989 election

1984 election

1979 election

1974 election

1969 election

1965 election

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