Tati West | |
Type: | Single-member |
Parl Name: | National Assembly |
Blank3 Name: | MP |
Blank3 Info: | Simon Moabi |
Blank4 Name: | Margin of victory |
Blank4 Info: | 1,453 (11.5 pp) |
Population: | 30,910[1] |
Towns: | Masunga |
Year: | 1965 |
Blank1 Name: | Abolished |
Blank1 Info: | 1974 |
Blank2 Name: | Re-established |
Blank2 Info: | 2004 |
Previous: | North-East |
Party: | BDP |
Tati West is a constituency in the North-East District represented in the National Assembly of Botswana since 2019 by Simon Moabi a BDP MP.
The constituency existed between 1965 and 1974, when it was replaced by North-East after two elections. It was restored in 2002 for the 2004 elections and acquired its current boundaries in 2012.[2]
In the 1965 and 1969 elections the constituency voted for the opposition BPP candidate, Kenneth Nkhwa. After its re-establishment in 2004, it has remained a generally marginal seat for the BDP, with BPP (later an UDC coalition member) as main challenger. In 2019 its MP Biggie Butale defected from the BDP to become president of the Botswana Patriotic Front, but he decisively lost the seat in the same year election. The constituency, predominantly rural, encompasses the following villages:[3]
Key:
width=100 | Election | width=175 colspan=2 | Winner |
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bgcolor= | Kenneth Nkhwa | ||
width=5 bgcolor= | |||
width=5 bgcolor= | Mbiganyi Charles Tibone | ||
bgcolor= | |||
bgcolor= | Biggie Butale | ||
bgcolor= | Simon Moabi | ||