| Okavango | |
| Type: | Single-member |
| Parl Name: | National Assembly |
| Blank3 Name: | MP |
| Blank3 Info: | Kenny Kapinga |
| Blank4 Name: | Margin of victory |
| Blank4 Info: | 761 (5.13 pp) |
| Population: | 44,690[1] |
| Year: | 1965 |
| Party: | BCP |
Okavango is a constituency in the North-West District represented in the National Assembly of Botswana by Kenny Kapinga a BCP MP.
Following the completion of the 2022 Delimitation of Parliamentary constituencies, the existing seat will be dissolved and replaced by two new constituencies, Okavango East and Okavango West, to be first contested in the upcoming 2024 general election.[2]
The Okavango constituency is located in the north of North-West Distritct 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, effectively dissolving the constituency.
The constituency, predominantly rural, encompasses the following villages:[3]
Key:
| width=100 | Election | width=175 colspan=2 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | Tsheko Tsheko | ||
| width=5 bgcolor= | Motsamai Mpho | ||
| width=5 bgcolor= | |||
| bgcolor= | Bailang Salepito | ||
| bgcolor= | Joseph Kavindama | ||
| bgcolor= | |||
| bgcolor= | |||
| bgcolor= | |||
| bgcolor= | Vister Moruti | ||
| bgcolor= | Bagalatia Arone | ||
| bgcolor= | |||
| bgcolor= | Kenny Kapinga | ||