34 of the 38 seats in the National Assembly 18 seats needed for a majority
Registered
367,069
Majority party
Minority party
Leader
Quett Masire
Kenneth Koma
Party
BDP
BNF
Leader's seat
None[a]
Gaborone South
Last election
68.00%, 29 seats
20.44%, 4 seats
Seats won
31
3
Seat change
2
1
Popular vote
162,277
67,513
Percentage
64.78%
26.95%
Swing
3.22pp
6.51pp
Results by constituency
President before election
Quett Masire
BDP
Elected President
Quett Masire
BDP
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President
Mokgweetsi Masisi
Vice-President
Slumber Tsogwane
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Speaker: Phandu Skelemani
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General elections were held in Botswana on 7 October 1989, alongside local elections.[1] The result was the sixth straight landslide victory for the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which won 31 of the 34 elected seats.[2]
As of the 2019 general elections, this is the last time the BDP received more than the 60% of the popular vote.
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^Elections held in 1989 Inter-Parliamentary Union
^Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p113 ISBN 0-19-829645-2
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