Blantyre District

Demographics

At the time of the 2018 Census of Malawi, the distribution of the population of Blantyre District by ethnic group was as follows:

• 21.3% Ngoni
• 18.0% Lomwe
• 17.0% Yao
• 12.6% Mang'anja
• 11.6% Chewa
• 10.1% Tumbuka
• 5.2% Sena
• 1.4% Tonga
• 0.6% Nyanja
• 0.3% Nkhonde
• 0.1% Lambya
• 0.1% Sukwa
• 0.8% Others

Government and administrative divisions

There are twelve National Assembly constituencies in Blantyre:

• Blantyre - Bangwe
• Blantyre - City East
• Blantyre - City South
• Blantyre - City South East
• Blantyre - City West
• Blantyre - Kabula
• Blantyre - Malabada
• Blantyre - North
• Blantyre - North East
• Blantyre - Rural East
• Blantyre - West
• Blantyre - South West

Elections

Since the 2009 election all of these constituencies have been held by members of the Democratic Progressive Party.

Another election was conducted on 20 May 2014, this was the first tripartite elections where voters chose Councillors, Members of Parliament and President. Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika won with 1,904,399 votes (36.4%).