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Democracy Ratings
| Freedom House 2018 |
Score: 3 out of 7 (where lower scores are more democratic) |
Freedom Status: Partly Free |
|---|---|---|
| EIU Democracy Index 2017 |
Score: 6.64 out of 10 (where higher scores are more democratic) |
World Ranking: =56 |
| Polity IV 2016 |
Score: 8 (from -10 to 10, where higher scores are more democratic) |
Category: Democracy |
Political System
| System of Government | Constitutional monarchy and parliamentary system |
|---|---|
| Presidential Electoral System | First past the post |
| System of appointment to legislature |
Mixed-member proportional representation |
| Last Legislative Election |
2017 |
| Next Legislative Election |
2020 |
| Number of Seats in Legislature | 120 |
| Female quota, representation in lower house | Yes: legislated candidate quotas |
Results
| Last legislative election (2017) | ||
| Party | Votes (%) | Seats |
| All Basotho Convention[a] | 40.52 | 48 |
| Democratic Congress | 25.82 | 30 |
| Lesotho Congress for Democracy | 8.95 | 11 |
| Alliance of Democrats | 7.34 | 9 |
| Movement for Economic Change | 5.06 | 6 |
| Basotho National Party | 4.05 | 5 |
| Popular Front for Democracy | 2.27 | 3 |
| National Independent Party | 1.1 | 1 |
| Reformed Congress of Lesotho | 0.69 | 1 |
| Basutoland Congress Party | 0.59 | 1 |
| Democratic Party of Lesotho | 0.48 | 1 |
| Marematlou Freedom Party | 0.47 | 1 |
| Lesotho People’s Congress | 0.41 | 0 |
| Basotho Democratic National Party | 0.31 | 0 |
| Lesotho Workers’ Party | 0.29 | 0 |
| Baena | 0.24 | 0 |
| Hamore Democratic Party | 0.23 | 0 |
| Lekhotla la Mekhoa le Meetlo | 0.18 | 0 |
| Majalefa Development Movement | 0.18 | 0 |
| True Reconciliation Unity | 0.14 | 0 |
| Basutoland African National Congress | 0.12 | 0 |
| Tsebe Social Democrats | 0.07 | 0 |
| Community Freedom Movement | 0.06 | 0 |
| Basotho Thabeng ea Sinai | 0.05 | 0 |
| Sankatana Social Democracy | 0.04 | 0 |
| All Democratic Cooperation | 0.03 | 0 |
| White Horse Party | 0.02 | 0 |
| African Unity Movement | 0.01 | 0 |
| IND PR | 0.01 | 0 |