Ngami (Botswana constituency) explained

Ngami
Type:Single-member
Parl Name:National Assembly
Blank3 Name:MP
Blank3 Info:Caterpillar Hikuama
Blank4 Name:Margin of victory
Blank4 Info:1,210 (2.1 pp)
Population:46,721[1]
Year:1965
Party: BCP

Ngami is a constituency in the North-West District represented in the National Assembly of Botswana since 2019 by Caterpillar Hikuama a BCP MP.

Constituency profile

Ngami is one of the few constituencies created for the inaugural National Assembly elections in 1965 that has kept its name since then. From 1965 until the 2000s, Ngami was a safe seat for the BDP. The seat became more competitive from 2004 and in 2009 Goyamang Habano from the BAM (later merged with the BCP) was elected as the first non-BDP MP in the constituency. The BDP narrowly regained the constituency in 2014 by 48 votes from the BCP. In 2019, after the BCP joined the UDC, it regained the seat in the context of an opposition sweep in the North-West District. The constituency, predominantly rural, encompasses the following villages:[2]

  1. Somelo
  2. Sehitwa
  3. Bodibeng
  4. Botlhatlogo
  5. Kareng
  6. Makakung
  7. Semboyo
  8. Tsau
  9. Habu
  10. Nokaneng
  11. Etsha1
  12. Etsha 6
  13. Etsha 13
  14. Qangwa
  15. Xaxa
  16. Gumare
  17. Tubu
  18. Jao

Members of Parliament

Key:

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bgcolor=Jacob Nkate
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bgcolor=Goyamang Habano
bgcolor=Thato Kwerepe
bgcolor=Caterpillar Hikuama

Election results

1965 election

Notes and References

  1. Book: 2022 DELIMITATION COMMISSION REPORT . 2022 . 5-6.
  2. Book: REPORT OF THE DELIMITATION COMMISSION, 2012 . 2012 . 4-5.