Lesotho: Women's representation in the 2007 National Assembly

Updated May 2008

30 women were elected to the 120 member National Assembly, forming 25% of the House (Makume 2008a). This is a considerable improvement on the 14 women, 11.7%, of the 2002 National Assembly (Makume 2008a).

If the figures for the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy/National Independent Party alliance are combined, 28.9% of the alliance's National Assembly members were women. The opposition All Basotho Convention/Lesotho Workers Party alliance's combined rate was 18.5%.

Party/Alliance	Total seats	Women's seats	% women
Lesotho Congress for Democracy	62	13	21.0
National Independent Party	21	11	52.4
All Basotho Convention	17	2	11.8
Lesotho Workers Party	10	3	30
Basotho National Party	3	0	0
Alliance of Congress Parties	2	1	50
Popular Front For Democracy	1	0	0
Basutoland Congress Party	1	0	0
Marematlou Freedom Party	1	0	0
Basotho Democratic National Party	1	0	0
Basotho Batho Democratic Party	1	0	0
Total	120	30	25

Table source

Makume 2008b.

References

MAKUME, LP 2008a, "Voter Turnout", e-mail from IEC Database Administrator, 21 May.

MAKUME, LP 2008b, "Voter Turnout", e-mail from IEC Database Administrator, 22 May.