Politics of Lesotho

Politics of Lesotho takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Lesotho is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of Parliament, the Senate and the National Assembly. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature
The National Assembly of Lesotho is the lower chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament.

e • d Results of the 26 May 2012 National Assembly of Lesotho elections

Party	Votes	%	Seats			+/–
			Constituency	PR	Total
Democratic Congress (DC)	218,366	39.58	41	7	48	New
All Basotho Convention (ABC)	138,917	25.18	26	4	30	13
Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD)	121,076	21.94	12	14	26	36
Basotho National Party (BNP)	23,788	4.31	0	5	5	2
Popular Front for Democracy (PFD)	11,166	2.02	1	2	3	2
National Independent Party (NIP)	6,880	1.25	0	2	2	19
Lesotho Peoples' Congress (LPC)	5,021	0.91	0	1	1
Basotho Democratic National Party (BDNP)	3,433	0.62	0	1	1
Marematlou Freedom Party (MFP)	3,300	0.60	0	1	1
Basotho Congress Party (BCP)	2,531	0.46	0	1	1
Basotho Batho Democratic Party (BBDP)	2,440	0.44	0	1	1
Lesotho Workers' Party (LWP)	2,408	0.44	0	1	1	9
All Democratic Corporation (ADC)	1,933	0.35	0	0	0
Lekhotla La Mekhoa le Moetlo (LMM)	1,691	0.31	0	0	0
Areka Covenant Front for Development (ACFD)	1,227	0.22	0	0	0
Sankatana Social Democratic Party (SSDP)	1,081	0.20	0	0	0
African Unity Movement (AUM)	714	0.13	0	0	0
White Horse Party (WHP)	252	0.05	0	0	0
Independents	5,502	1.00	0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	12,725	–	–	–	–	–
Total	564,451	100.00	80	40	120
Registered voters/turnout	1,127,980	50.04	–	–	–	–