Molao Wins

Fidelis Mmilili Molao of the BDP comfortably defeated the joint opposition candidate, Dr Habaudi Njiro Hobona of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) and Mbayani Phalalo of the Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin (MELS). The former Botswana National Youth Council (BNYC) executive director garnered an impressive 4,575 votes, while Hobona got 2,617. Phalalo was third with a paltry 62 votes - even the 140 spoilt ballots exceeded his tally.

Although touted as one constituency with a high number of illiterate voters, this time around, the number of rejected votes has gone down compared to the 2009 general elections figure of 162. But a challenge still remains for the stakeholders to educate the masses to ensure  the rejected votes are reduced drastically or eliminated altogether.