Swakopmund Constituency

Swakopmund constituency is a constituency in the Erongo Region of Namibia. The constituency had a population of 44,725 in 2011, up from 26,310 in 2001.[1] The coverage of the constituency and its district capital is the city of Swakopmund. As of 2020 the constituency had 35,668 registered voters.[2]

Swakopmund constituency (red) in the Erongo Region (yellow)

Politics

In the 2010 regional elections, SWAPO's Germina Shitaleni won the constituency with 5,132 votes. Her only challenger was Esegiel Guiseb of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), who received 2,540 votes.[3] The 2015 regional elections were also won by the SWAPO candidate. Juuso Kambueshe obtained 6,121 votes. Christa Magrietha Hochobeb of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) came second with 2,237 votes, and Rossie Lucia Ramakhutua of the RDP came third with 774 votes.[4]

The 2020 regional election was won by Ciske Howard-Smith of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC, an opposition party formed in August 2020). She obtained 5,688 votes. The SWAPO candidate, Phillipus Munenguni, came second with 3,260 votes.[2] Howard-Smith subsequently was elected chairperson of the Erongo Regional Council. After Howard-Smith was expelled from the IPC in May 2022,[5] a by-election was held in August. The IPC candidate again won. Ndaninga Kativa obtained 3,625 votes, followed by SWAPO's Salomon Ndara Nehemiah with 3,122 votes and Hilaria Tangeni Musheko of the Landless People's Movement (LPM) with 1,362 votes.[6]

References
  1. "Erongo 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 17 March 2021.
  3. Election results from Electoral Commission of Namibia
  4. "Regional Council Election Results 2015". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 3 December 2015. p. 2. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
  5. de Klerk, Eveline (18 May 2022). "IPC expels Smith-Howard". New Era.
  6. Mbathera, Ester (13 August 2022). "9 918 votes cast in Swakopmund by-election". The Namibian.

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