Ondangwa Rural Constituency (red) in the Oshana Region (yellow)

Ondangwa Rural is an electoral constituency in the Oshana Region of Namibia. It had 13,613 inhabitants in 2016[1] and 7,682 registered voters in 2020.[2] The administrative centre of the constituency is the settlement Eheke.[3]

Ondangwa Rural was created by splitting the former constituency of Ondangwa into a rural and an urban part in August 2013, following a recommendation of the Fourth Delimitation Commission of Namibia, and in preparation of the 2014 general election.[4]

Politics

Ondangwa is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. The following people have served as councillors of Ondangwa Rural (until 2013: Ondangwa) constituency:[5]

  1. Prinse Shiimi (1992–1998)
  2. Ismael Uugwanga (1999–2010)
  3. Alfeus Abraham (since 2011)

In the 2015 local and regional elections councillor Abraham won uncontested after no opposition party nominated a candidate.[6] Abraham was again reelected in the 2020 regional election, winning with 2,170 votes over Armas Ntinda of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, with 944 votes.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Constituencies of Namibia, 2016
  2. 1 2 "Regional Council 2020 Election Results". Interactive map. Electoral Commission of Namibia. 18 January 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  3. ↑ "Eheke". Oshana Regional Council. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  4. ↑ Nakale, Albertina (9 August 2013). "President divides Kavango into two". New Era.
  5. ↑ "Ondangwa Rural". Oshana Regional Council. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  6. ↑ Kangootui, Nomhle (23 October 2015). "Swapo gets ǃNamiǂNûs uncontested". The Namibian. Archived from the original on October 24, 2015.

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