Okahandja Constituency
Okahandja Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. It had 18,155 people living there in 2004[1] and 18,109 voters in 2020[update].[2] The constituency is made of the town of Okahandja and the surrounding rural area.
Politics
[change | change source]The 2015 regional election was won by Steve Biko Booys of the SWAPO Party with 3,280 votes. Independent candidate Welfriedt Groeitjie Goaseb gained 501 votes.[3]
The SWAPO candidate also won the 2020 regional election. Bethuel Tjaveondja received 2,451 votes, more than Frisia Ambondja of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), a party formed in August 2020, which got 1,057 votes. Other people ran, such as Belinda Garoes of the United Democratic Front (UDF, 599 votes), Willem Veiko of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM, the new name of the DTA, 350 votes), and Tjitee Mujoro of the Landless People's Movement (LPM, a new party registered in 2018, 332 votes).[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Constituencies of Namibia, 2004
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Regional Council 2020 Election Results". Interactive map. Electoral Commission of Namibia. 18 January 2021. Archived from the original on 12 June 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ↑ "Regional Council Election Results 2015". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 3 December 2015. p. 20. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
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