This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Botswana Democratic Party" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(October 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Botswana Democratic Party
Abbreviation
BDP
Chairman
Slumber Tsogwane
President of Botswana
Mokgweetsi Masisi
Vice President of Botswana
Slumber Tsogwane
Speaker of the National Assembly
Phandu Skelemani
Leader of the House
Slumber Tsogwane
Founder
Seretse Khama
Founded
November 1961
Headquarters
Tsholetsa House, Gaborone
Ideology
Paternalistic conservatism[1]
Political position
Centre[2] to centre-right[3][4][5][6]
International affiliation
Socialist International
(consultative)[7]
Africa affiliation
FLMSA
Colours
Red Black White
National Assembly
38 / 57
Pan African Parliament
3 / 4
Party flag
Website
bdp.org.bw
Politics of Botswana
Political parties
Elections
The Botswana Democratic Party (abbr. BDP; Tswana: Phathi ya Tomokoraga) is the governing party in Botswana. Its chairman is the Vice-President of Botswana, Slumber Tsogwane, and its symbol is a lift jack. The party has ruled Botswana continuously since gaining independence from the United Kingdom in 1966.[8] The BDP is sometimes classified as a paternalistic conservative party and is also a consultative member of the Socialist International since 2014, which is a group including many worldwide social-democratic parties.
The BDP was primarily shaped by two of its founders, Sir Seretse Khama and Quett Ketumile Masire. Traditional Setswana communities make up the party's base, which has led the BDP to remain a conservative movement.
In the 2019 Parliamentary elections, the BDP took 38 seats, giving it continued control of the chamber.
^Seekings, J. (2017). ‘Building A Conservative Welfare State In Botswana’. WIDER Working Paper 2017/83. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/wp2017-83_0.pdf Archived 20 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine.
^Ralph Morris Goldman (9 July 2002). The Future Catches Up: Selected Writings of Ralph M. Goldman, Volume 1. iUniverse. p. 214. ISBN 0595733867. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
^"After 46 years in power, Botswana's Democratic Party face united rival". The Times. SAPA-AFP. 22 November 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
^Fombad, Charles M.; Steytler, Nico, eds. (10 September 2019). Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 468. ISBN 9780192585035. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
^Phirinyane, Molefe B., ed. (2013). Elections and the Management of Diversity in Botswana (PDF) (Report). Lightbooks. p. 31. ISBN 978-99912-71-50-7. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
^Derbyshire, J Denis; Derbyshire, Ian (2000). Encyclopedia of World Political Systems. New York: Routledge. p. 111. ISBN 9781317471561. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
^Member parties of the Socialist International
^"Botswana's Masisi retains presidency as BDP wins election". Reuters. Archived from the original on 18 October 2022.
and 27 Related for: Botswana Democratic Party information
The BotswanaDemocraticParty (abbr. BDP; Tswana: Phathi ya Tomokoraga) is the governing party in Botswana. Its chairman is the Vice-President of Botswana...
The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) is a social democratic political party in Botswana. Founded in 1998 as a result of a split from the Botswana National...
for 57 years, making Botswana a dominant-party system. The election held on October 23, 2019, saw the BotswanaDemocraticParty (BDP) maintain its parliamentary...
lists political parties in Botswana. Botswana is a dominant-party state with the BotswanaDemocraticParty in power. Opposition parties are widely considered...
The Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) is a populist political party in Botswana formed in July 2019 by members of the BotswanaDemocraticParty who split...
least 1998, although it is effectively a one-party state, as the BotswanaDemocraticParty has held majority power ever since it became an independent country...
in Botswana on 23 October 2019 to elect MPs and local government councillors. Despite a high profile split in the ruling BotswanaDemocraticParty (BDP)...
with the ruling BotswanaDemocraticParty (BDP) due to differences with Ian Khama, the leader of the BDP and the President of Botswana at the time. It...
The Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) is a centre-left to left-wing alliance of political parties in Botswana. The UDC was founded in November 2012...
of Botswana from 1966 until his death on 13 July 1980. To date, all Prime Ministers and Presidents have represented the BotswanaDemocraticParty (BDP)...
The Botswana National Front (BNF) is a social democratic political party in Botswana. It has been the main opposition party in Botswana since the 1969...
legislature with only limited separation of powers. The BotswanaDemocraticParty (BDP) rules as a dominant party; while elections are considered free and fair...
the 2019 general election was held which saw the return of the BotswanaDemocraticParty to the power with a majority of 19 seats in the 65 seat National...
elections in 1965, the BotswanaDemocraticParty has won a majority of seats in the legislative body. As a result, an inter-party power transition has not...
The MELS Movement of Botswana was an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in Botswana without parliamentary representation. Themba Joina...
The Botswana Republican Party (BRP) is a Christian-democratic political party in Botswana led by former Tati West MP, Biggie Butale. It was founded in...
elections were held in Botswana on 24 October 2014. The result was an eleventh straight victory for the BotswanaDemocraticParty, which won 37 of the 57...
of Botswana. After he ascended to the presidency, his predecessor Ian Khama left the ruling BotswanaDemocraticParty (BDP) to found the Botswana Patriotic...
National Assembly in Serowe North West in a 2008 by-election as a BotswanaDemocraticParty (BDP) member. He was subsequently re-elected in 2009 and 2014...
permanent secretary to the president and cabinet. Following the BotswanaDemocraticParty's victory in the 2019 general election, President Mokgweetsi Masisi...
Botswana general election was held on 23 October 2019. It saw the BotswanaDemocraticParty (BDP) retain its legislative majority. The table below lists the...
Treasurer of the BotswanaDemocraticParty Hendrik van Zyl, famed trader and politician in Ghanzi Afrikaners History of the Jews in Botswana White Angolans...
election, which gave the BotswanaDemocraticParty control of Parliament with 28 members, while the Botswana People's Party received the remaining three...
politician who was the first Treasurer of the BotswanaDemocraticParty and the first white Botswanan Member of Parliament in 1965. Angolan Jews Namibian...
Global Information
