Elim 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

Omusati Region Omusati (the Oshindonga word for Mopane, the dominant tree in the area) is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Outapi. The towns of Okahao, Oshikuku and Ruacana as well as the self-governed village Tsandi are situated in ...

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 7,883 registered voters . Its district capital is the settlement of Elim. Elim Constituency covers an area of . It had a population of 11,406 in 2011, up from 10,850 in 2001. It borders to the north and west to the constituencies Okalongo and

Oshikuku Oshikuku is a town in Omusati Region in the north of Namibia. The town is situated on the Oshakati - Ruacana road (C46) about 30 km west of Oshakati. It is the district capital of Oshikuku Constituency. It had a population of 5,499 people in 20 ...

and in the east to 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 ...

. There are a number of villages in the constituency, some being: Onashiku, Iiyale, Iino, Olupumbu, Iiyanguti, Olupembana, Ondangwa, Onegali, Onamega. The constituency contains the homestead of

Iipumpu Ya Tshilongo Iipumbu ya Tshilongo (1875–1959) was the king of Uukwambi, an Ovambo clan in Namibia, from 1907 to 1932. He is one of the national heroes of Namibia. Biography Iipumbu ya Tshilongo was born in 1873 in Onatshiku, a settlement near Elim, today in ...

, king of the

Uukwambi Uukwambi is a traditional kingdom of the Ovambo people in what is today northern Namibia. Its capital is Elim. The last king of Uukwambi was Iipumbu yaTshirongo, who was toppled by the South African authorities in 1932. Nowadays the highest tra ...

from 1907 to 1932. The homestead in Onashiku was proclaimed a national monument in 2014, and de-proclaimed a few months later.

Politics

Elim 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. The 2004 regional election was won by SWAPO politician Gerhard Shiimi. He received 4,124 of the 4,266 votes cast. In the 2015 local and regional elections SWAPO candidate Shiimi won uncontested and remained councillor after no opposition party nominated a candidate. Councillor Shiimi (SWAPO) was reelected in the 2020 regional election. He obtained 2,775 votes, far ahead of Kilian Amupolo, an

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with 511 votes.

2024 general election

Presidential

National Assembly

References

Constituencies of Omusati Region States and territories established in 1992 1992 establishments in Namibia Constituencies of Namibia {{Namibia-gov-stub