2012 Lesotho general election

2012 Lesotho general election

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All 120 seats in the National Assembly

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– DC Pakalitha Mosisili 39.58 48 New ABC Tom Thabane 25.18 30 +13 LCD Mothetjoa Metsing 21.94 26 −3 BNP Justin Lekhanya 4.31 5 +2 PFD 2.02 3 +2 NIP 1.25 2 −19 LPC 0.91 1 0 BDNP 0.62 1 0 MFP 0.60 1 0 BCP 0.46 1 0 BBDP 0.44 1 0 LWP 0.44 1 −9 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after election Pakalitha Mosisili DC Tom Thabane ABC

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General elections were held in Lesotho on 26 May 2012. The incumbent Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili's newly formed Democratic Congress won a majority of single-member seats. He also won his seat by the second-largest margin of victory.^[1] However, they only had a plurality in the overall tally and coalition talks are taking place.