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Mashare is a constituency in the
Mashare is a constituency in the Kavango East
Kavango East is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia. Its capital is Rundu, its governor is Bonifatius Wakudumo. The Region was created in 2013 when the Kavango Region was split into Kavango East and Kavango West. The only self-governed settl ...
region of northern Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and e ...
. The district centre is the settlement of Mashare
Mashare is a settlement in the Kavango East Region of Namibia, just east of Rundu, the regional capital. It is the district capital of Mashare Constituency.
The settlement hosted a leprosarium until the early 1980s when the Namibian War of Indepen ...
. It had a population of 15,688 in 2011, down from 16,007 in 2001. the constituency had 9,165 registered voters.
The constituency contains the settlements of Dwasa, Tceha, Kondja, Namagadi, and Rudjadja.
There is a bilateral agreement with Angola
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to allow mutual near-border immigration without travel documents. This applies to a maximum distance of 30 km, it is not valid for tourists.
Politics
The 2015 regional elections were won bySWAPO
The South West Africa People's Organisation (, SWAPO; af, Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; german: Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former ind ...
candidate Mavara Fillipus Nkore with 2,707 votes. Paulus Sikongo of
the All People's Party (APP) came second with 1,487 votes, and Nankema Shirongo of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance
The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), formerly the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), is an amalgamation of political parties in Namibia, registered as one singular party for representation purposes. In coalition with the United Democratic ...
(DTA) came third with 110 votes. Nkore was re-elected in the 2020 regional election after obtaining 1,716 votes. Engelbert Hamutenya Namufinda (APP) came second with 692 votes.
See also
*Constituencies of Namibia
Each of the 14 regions of Namibia is further subdivided into electoral constituencies. The size of the constituencies varies with the size and population of each region. There are currently 121 constituencies in Namibia. The most populous con ...
References
Constituencies of Kavango East Region States and territories established in 1992 1992 establishments in Namibia {{Namibia-gov-stub