Mukwe 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-governing sett ...

region of

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. The district centre is the settlement of Mukwe. It had a population of 27,690 in 2011, up from 27,250 in 2001. The constituency contains the major settlements of

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, Kangongo and

Divundu Divundu (1.090 m above sea level) is a village on the south-eastern banks of the Okavango River in the Kavango East Region of Namibia, east of Rundu. Divundu has a population of around 5,430 inhabitants and is the homestead of the local Hambuku ...

, and a number of small populated places such as

Andara Andara is a village in Mukwe Constituency in the Kavango East region of north-eastern Namibia. Located east of Rundu, it is inhabited primarily by the Hambukushu people. Founding of the Catholic mission Catholic fathers of the organization M ...

and

Diyogha Diyogha is a settlement in the Kavango East Region in the north of Namibia. It is situated approximately east of Rundu and belongs to the Mukwe Constituency. Diyogha is served by the Roman Catholic Holy Family Parish in Andara Andara is a vil ...

. the constituency had 16,678 registered voters. There is a bilateral agreement with

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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.

Elections

General elections

The day after the 2009 general election, the

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(ECN) called for a recount of Mukwe's ballots "after several political parties expressed their unhappiness over the counting process". There were 19 polling stations in the constituency. In the certified results, incumbent President and

SWAPO 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 ...

candidate

Hifikepunye Pohamba Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba (born 18 August 1935) is a Namibian politician who served as the second president of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 21 March 2015. He won the 2004 Namibian presidential election, 2004 presidential election overwhelming ...

received 6,227 votes of the 8,542 accepted votes. The closest candidates to Pohamba were

Ignatius Shixwameni Ignatius Nkotongo Shixwameni (4 September 1966 – 10 November 2021) was a Namibian politician. He was the leader of Namibia's All People's Party. Life Shixwameni was born in Shambyu, the traditional kingdom in the Kavango Region, and he earn ...

of the All People's Party (APP, 661 votes) and

Hidipo Hamutenya Hidipo Livius Hamutenya (17 June 1939 – 6 October 2016) was a Namibian politician. He died aged 77 after a short illness. A long-time leading member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Hamutenya was a member of the Cabinet ...

of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP, 343 votes).

Regional elections

In the 2010 local and regional elections, SWAPO's Christian Muriki won a seat in the Kavango Regional Council with 3,774 votes over APP's Pankratius Kutenda with 783 votes. Petrus Dishara of the

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(DTA) finished in third place with 414 votes and RDP's Justina Ngombara finished in last place 117 votes. The 2015 regional elections were again a landslide win for Swapo. Johannes John Haushiku Thighuru received 5,541 votes while Venantius Kambogho of the APP received 484 votes and Bernand Thimbonde of the DTA came third with 442 votes. The SWAPO candidate also won the 2020 regional election. Damian Marungu Maghambayi obtained 2,995 votes, far ahead of Benedict Dindo (APP, 596 votes).

References

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Elections

General elections

Regional elections

See also

References