Kanye South | |
Type: | Single-member |
Parl Name: | National Assembly |
Blank3 Name: | MP |
Blank3 Info: | Lemogang Kwape |
Blank4 Name: | Margin of victory |
Blank4 Info: | 4,441 (24.1 pp) |
Population: | 40,907 |
Towns: | Kanye |
Year: | 1965 |
Blank1 Name: | Abolished |
Blank1 Info: | 1984 |
Blank2 Name: | Re-established |
Blank2 Info: | 2004 |
Previous: | Kanye Ngwaketse South |
Party: | BDP |
Kanye South is a constituency in the Southern District represented in the National Assembly of Botswana since 2019 by Lemogang Kwape, a Democratic Member of Parliament and current Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Further to the completion of the 2022 Delimitation of Parliamentary constituencies, the seat will be subject to moderate boundary changes and will be renamed Kanye West, to be first contested at the 2024 general election.[1]
The seat has traditionally been a marginal seat for the BNF,[2] consistently supporting it from its establishment until the BDP secured a landslide victory. This aligned with the broader success the BDP achieved in the Southern parts of Botswana during the 2019 election. The constituency, predominantly rural, encompasses the following villages:[3]
Key:
width=100 | Election | width=175 colspan=2 | Winner |
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bgcolor= | Quett Masire | ||
width=5 bgcolor= | Bathoen Gaseitsiwe | ||
width=5 bgcolor= | |||
width=5 bgcolor= | |||
width=5 bgcolor= | Omphitlhetse Maswabi | ||
bgcolor= | Abram Kesupile | ||
bgcolor= | |||
bgcolor= | Lemogang Kwape | ||