Thyolo District

The Thyolo district of Malawi is one of the districts in Malawi. The capital is Thyolo. The district covers an area of 1,715 km². and has a population of 458,976.

Demographics

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

50.2% Lomwe
12.3% Mang'anja
6.3% Ngoni
6.0% Tumbuka
5.1% Yao
3.2% Sena
2.1% Chewa
0.1% Nkhonde
0.0% Lambya
0.0% Sukwa
8.1% Others

Government and administrative divisions

There are seven National Assembly constituencies in Thyolo:

Thyolo - Central
Thyolo - East
Thyolo - North
Thyolo - South
Thyolo - South West
Thyolo - Thava
Thyolo - West

Since the 2009 election, all of these constituencies have been held by members of the Democratic Progressive Party.
In the 2025 election the Thyolo Goliati constituency was won by Maureen Namwali of the DPP.