Government of Lesotho

Political mix

Seats by party in each chamber of Lesotho. One dot is one seat.

This page lists all 120 seats of Lesotho's 11th National Assembly, elected on 7 October 2022 and sworn in at the special sitting of 25 October 2022. Eighty members were elected constituency by constituency; the other 40 hold seats allocated to the parties from proportional representation lists, shared out according to each party's national vote. Where the names and seats come from. The list of sitting members is taken from the roll of the 11th Parliament published by the National Assembly of Lesotho, read on 21 October 2026. It is the only source we found that names all 120 members. Every one of the 80 constituency seats was then checked against the Independent Electoral Commission's published report of the winning party in each constituency at the 2022 election; on the 79 seats that report covers, the two records agree seat by seat. A pinned revision of the List of National Assembly members of the 11th Parliament of Lesotho on Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0 at the revision linked from every member page, was consulted for fuller spellings of names only, and no article text or image is reproduced. Seats that changed hands after the election. The seating shown here differs from the election result in four places. In 2023 the Independent Electoral Commission reallocated proportional representation seats under Legal Notice No. 38 of 2023, after litigation over the first allocation, and four members were sworn in at the National Assembly in April 2023: Masetota Leshota (Basotho National Party), Tefo Mapesela (Basotho Patriotic Party), Paul Masiu (Lesotho People's Congress) and Mohlominyane Tota (United for Change). The notice does not give the date of that swearing in, so the start date for those four members is left blank rather than guessed, and their pages are kept out of search engines until a date is published. The four seats moved from parties that had been over-represented: the Democratic Congress sits on 26 seats against 29 won at the election, the Alliance of Democrats on 4 against 5, and the Basotho National Party on 2 against 1, while the Basotho Patriotic Party, the Lesotho People's Congress and United for Change each hold one seat they did not win at the polls. The Parliament page shows both the election result and the seating on the date of this record, so the two counts can be compared. The one constituency the Commission does not report. The Commission's published winning party report carries no result for Stadium Area, so that seat's winner, Mampho Tjabane of the Revolution for Prosperity, rests on the National Assembly roll and on the reference list. We have assumed no result for it beyond the party both records give, and the same seat is the only one with no gender printed in the Commission's report. No portraits. No photograph of any member that we could publish under a clear licence was found, so no member page shows one. Member pages without a photograph and a published start date are kept out of search engines and out of the sitemap; the country page and this Parliament page stay indexed. What these sources do not publish. Neither the roll nor the reference list gives a district or region for a constituency, so no district is shown. The roll prints no vote count and no vote share for any member, so none is shown. Neither source gives a birth date, an e-mail address or a telephone number for a member. The Commission's report prints the gender of each constituency winner but not of the proportional representation members, so gender is shown for 79 members and left blank for the other 41. The Senate is not covered here: it has 33 members, 22 of them principal chiefs and 11 nominated by the King, and it holds no party seats.