Mariental Rural

Mariental Rural is a constituency in the Hardap region of Namibia. Its administrative centre is the city of Mariental. It had a population of 15,308 in 2011, up from 13,946 in 2001.[1] As of 2020 the constituency had 4,065 registered voters.[2]

Mariental Rural constituency (red) in the Hardap Region (yellow)

Politics

The 2015 regional elections were won by Simon Christy Dukeleni of SWAPO with 1,207 votes. The runner-up and only challenger was Anna Elizabeth de Kock of the Rally for Democracy and Progress with 276 votes.[3]

For the 2020 regional election "serious procedural errors" were discovered in Mariental Rural. No initial result were announced,[2] and the electoral court ordered a re-run.[4] The re-run was conducted on 26 February 2021. As in all other constituencies of Hardap, the candidate of the Landless People's Movement (LPM, a new party registered in 2018) won. Deensia Swartbooi obtained 1,099 votes. Simon Kooper of SWAPO came second with 854 votes.[5]

References
  1. "Hardap 2011 Census Regional Profile" (PDF). Statistics Namibia. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  2. "Regional Council 2020 Election Results". Interactive map. Electoral Commission of Namibia. 18 January 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  3. "Regional Council Election Results 2015". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 3 December 2015. p. 4. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
  4. Iikela, Sakeus (4 December 2020). "ECN files to nullify Aroab, Koës elections". The Namibian. p. 3.
  5. "Final Results for the Rerun Elections for the Aroab, Koës, Stampriet Local Authorities and Mariental Rural Constituency" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Namibia. 27 February 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.

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