Uukwiyu Constituency is an
electoral constituency
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provid ...
in the
Oshana Region
Oshana is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia; its capital is Oshakati. The towns of Oshakati, Ongwediva and Ondangwa, all situated with this region, form an urban cluster with the second largest population concentration in Namibia after the c ...
of
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...
. It had 6,620 registered voters .
Its district capital is the settlement of
Uukwiyu. Uukwiyu Constituency covers an area of . It had a population of 12,092 in 2011, up from 12,047 in 2001.
Politics
Uukwiyu constituency is traditionally a stronghold of the
South West Africa People's Organization
The South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO ; , SWAVO; , SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former independence movement in Namibia (formerly South West Africa). Founded in 1960, it has been ...
(SWAPO) party. In the
2004 regional election SWAPO candidate Petrus Luaadhy Shiwedha received 3,829 of the 3,870 votes cast.
In the
2010 regional elections, SWAPO's Andreas Amundjindi won the constituency with 3,701 votes. His only challenger was Salmi Benjameni of the
Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), who received 48 votes.
Results from the Electoral Commission of Namibia
/ref> In the 2015 local and regional elections Amundjindi won uncontested and remained councillor after no opposition party nominated a candidate.Independent Patriots for Change
The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) is a political party in Namibia. It was founded by Panduleni Itula in August 2020. As an independent presidential candidate in the 2019 election, Itula won the best result of a losing candidate in a ...
(IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, with 914 votes.[
]
References
Constituencies of Oshana
States and territories established in 1992
1992 establishments in Namibia
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