1989 Botswana general election
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34 of the 38 seats in the National Assembly 18 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 367,069 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 68.24% (of registered voters) (9.34pp) 47.90% (of eligible population) (6.28pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Botswana on 7 October 1989, alongside local elections. The result was the sixth straight landslide victory for the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which won 31 of the 34 elected seats.
As of the 2019 general elections, this is the last time the BDP received more than the 60% of the popular vote.