{ "id": "ls-political-parties", "name": "Lesotho — Political Parties", "title": "Lesotho — Political Parties", "description": "Political parties of Lesotho from the Party Facts core parties list (hdigital/partyfactsdata). Each record includes the Party Facts ID, short and long names (localized + English + other transliterations), first and last years of activity, peak vote share with year, and Wikipedia link where available. 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"description", "label": "Description", "type": "string" }, { "key": "comment", "label": "Comment", "type": "string" }, { "key": "technical", "label": "Technical", "type": "string" } ], "rows": [ { "partyfacts_id": 4167, "name_short": "BCP", "name": "Basotho Congress Party / Basutoland Congress Party", "name_english": "Basotho Congress Party / Basutoland Congress Party", "name_other": "", "year_first": 1965, "year_last": 2012, "share": 73.4, "share_year": 1993, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basutoland_Congress_Party", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 3771, "name_short": "LCD", "name": "Lesotho Congress for Democracy", "name_english": "Lesotho Congress for Democracy", "name_other": "", "year_first": 1998, "year_last": 2012, "share": 60.9, "share_year": 1998, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho_Congress_for_Democracy", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 4171, "name_short": "BNP", "name": "Basotho National Party", "name_english": "Basotho National Party", "name_other": "", "year_first": 1965, "year_last": "", "share": 42.3, "share_year": 1970, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basotho_National_Party", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 4166, "name_short": "DC", "name": "Democratic Congress", "name_english": "Democratic Congress", "name_other": "", "year_first": 2011, "year_last": "", "share": 39.4, "share_year": 2012, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Congress", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 4170, "name_short": "NIP", "name": "National Independent Party", "name_english": "National Independent Party", "name_other": "", "year_first": 1993, "year_last": 2012, "share": 25.7, "share_year": 2007, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Independent_Party", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 3766, "name_short": "ABC", "name": "All Basotho Convention/Kobo Tata ea Basotho", "name_english": "All Basotho Convention", "name_other": "", "year_first": 2007, "year_last": 2012, "share": 25, "share_year": 2012, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Basotho_Convention", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 4172, "name_short": "MFP", "name": "Marematlou Freedom Party", "name_english": "Marematlou Freedom Party", "name_other": "", "year_first": 1965, "year_last": 2012, "share": 16.7, "share_year": 1965, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marematlou_Freedom_Party", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 3769, "name_short": "LWP", "name": "Lesotho Workers Party", "name_english": "Lesotho Workers Party", "name_other": "", "year_first": 2002, "year_last": 2012, "share": 12.4, "share_year": 2007, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho_Workers%27_Party", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 5980, "name_short": "AD", "name": "Alliance of Democrats", "name_english": "Alliance of Democrats", "name_other": "Sesotho: Pele-Feela", "year_first": 2016, "year_last": "", "share": 7.4, "share_year": 2017, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_Democrats_(Lesotho)", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 5982, "name_short": "MEC", "name": "Movement for Economic Change", "name_english": "Movement for Economic Change", "name_other": "Sesotho: Sethala sa Kholiso ea Moruo", "year_first": 2017, "year_last": "", "share": 5.1, "share_year": 2017, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_Economic_Change", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 3768, "name_short": "LPC", "name": "Lesotho People’s Congress", "name_english": "Lesotho People’s Congress", "name_other": "", "year_first": 2002, "year_last": 2012, "share": 3.1, "share_year": 2002, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho_People%27s_Congress", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 4169, "name_short": "BAC", "name": "Basutoland African Congress", "name_english": "Basutoland African Congress", "name_other": "", "year_first": 2002, "year_last": "", "share": 3, "share_year": 2002, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basutoland_African_Congress", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 4381, "name_short": "MML", "name": "Mokhatio oa Makomonisi a Lesotho", "name_english": "Communist Party of Lesotho", "name_other": "", "year_first": 1970, "year_last": 2002, "share": 2.9, "share_year": 2002, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Lesotho", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 4168, "name_short": "MT", "name": "Marema-Tlou/Marematlou Party", "name_english": "Marema-Tlou/Marematlou Party", "name_other": "", "year_first": 1965, "year_last": 1965, "share": 2.2, "share_year": 1965, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basutoland_general_election,_1965", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" }, { "partyfacts_id": 4173, "name_short": "PFD", "name": "Popular Front for Democracy", "name_english": "Popular Front for Democracy", "name_other": "Khoeetsa ea Sechaba", "year_first": 1993, "year_last": 2012, "share": 2, "share_year": 2012, "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_Democracy", "description": "", "comment": "", "technical": "" } ], "meta": { "title": "Lesotho — Political Parties - Free Download", "description": "Political parties of Lesotho from the Party Facts core parties list (hdigital/partyfactsdata). Each record includes the Party Facts ID, short and long names (localized + English + other transliterations), first and last years of activity, peak vote share with year, and Wikipedia link where available. The Party Facts project links party identities across major comparative-politics datasets (ParlGov, MARPOR/Manifesto, CHES, V-Party, etc.). Contains 15 records. Download in Excel, CSV, PDF formats.", "seo_title": "Lesotho — Political Parties | ListBase", "seo_description": "Download Lesotho — Political Parties dataset with 15 records. Available in Excel, CSV, PDF formats.", "key_takeaways": [ "Contains 15 records with 13 fields", "Available for free download in Excel, CSV, and PDF formats", "Data sourced from https://github.com/hdigital/partyfactsdata" ] } }