Lesotho parliamentary election, 2015

Lesotho general election, 2015

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All 120 seats to the National Assembly 61 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Pakalitha Mosisili Tom Thabane Mothetjoa Metsing Party DC ABC LCD Seats before 48 30 26 Seats won 47 46 12 Seat change 1 16 14 Popular vote 218,573 215,022 56,477 Percentage 38.37% 37.75% 9.91%
Prime Minister before election Tom Thabane ABC Prime Minister Designate Pakalitha Mosisili DC

Tom Thabane
ABC

Pakalitha Mosisili
DC

General elections were held in Lesotho on 28 February 2015 for all 120 seats of the National Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of Lesotho, more than two years ahead of schedule due to the 2014 political crisis. Following mediation facilitated by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), King Letsie III on the advice of the incumbent Prime Minister Tom Thabane, dissolved the Eighth Parliament and called a snap election.

Lesotho uses the mixed-member proportional representation voting system. More than 1.2 million voters had been registered by the Independent Electoral Commission. The army was confined to the barracks on the election day. The opposition Democratic Congress managed to form a coalition government as no party achieved an outright majority. Voter turnout was 48%.

After the 2012 election, Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili's Democratic Congress failed to attain a majority; and thus a coalition government was formed among the three opposition parties: All Basotho Convention (ABC), Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and the Basotho National Party (BCP). The government was led by ABC's Tom Thabane, who served as the new Prime Minister; whilst the leader of LCD, Mothetjoa Metsing was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister.

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