Eswatini
Data on women
empty
Basic information > About parliament
Speaker
Speaker
Petros
Mavimbela
(Male)
Year of birth
1963
Secretary general
Secretary General
Benedict
Xaba
(Male)
Secretary General
Raymond
Mkhonta
(Male)
Members
Current number of members, by sex
Men
The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Women
The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Percentage of women
Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
Age
Average age of all members
Youngest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member
Phila Wiseman Buthelezi (Male)
Oldest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
76
Oldest member
Barnabas Dlamini Prime Minister (Male)
Reserved seats and quotas
Number of reserved seats, by group
Women
4
Electoral quota for women
Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Notes
The Constitution requires that women should constitute 30% of the Parliament (Constitution 2005, Art. 95, para. 1c). At least half of the nominated members appointed by the King must be female (Constitution 2005, Art. 95, para. 2a). ‘Where at the first meeting of the House after any general election it appears that female members of Parliament will not constitute at least thirty per cent of the total membership of Parliament, then, and only then, the provisions of this section shall apply. […] For the purposes of this section, the House shall form itself into an electoral college and elect not more than four women on a regional basis to the House in accordance with the provisions of section 95(3).’ (Constitution 2005, Art. 86, para. 1, 2)
Elections > Historical data on women
Women's suffrage
Date of independence
For countries that become independent after 1940
1968
Women’s right to vote
Women’s right to vote
Year in which women obtained the right to vote
1968
National or local
Suffrage: National or Local
National
Restricted or unrestricted suffrage
Suffrage: Restricted or Universal
Universal
Women’s right to stand for election
Women's right to stand for election
Year in which women obtained the right to stand for election
1968
National or local
Stand for Election: National or Local
National
First woman in parliament
First woman in parliament
Year in which first woman entered parliament
1972
Notes
First woman speaker
Year of first woman speaker
Date at which, for the first time in the country's parliamentary history, a woman became Presiding Officer of Parliament or of one of its Houses.
2006