Okongo Constituency
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Okongo is a constituency in the
Ohangwena Region Ohangwena is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Eenhana. Major settlements in the region are the towns Eenhana and Helao Nafidi as well as the self-governed village of Okongo and the proclaimed settlements Ongha, Ongenga and O ...
of
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, on the border with
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. It had a population of 25,698 in 2011, up from 21,551 in 2001. , it had 12,562 registered voters. The main settlement and district capital is
Okongo Okongo is a village in the Ohangwena Region of northern Namibia. It had a population of 3,564 people in 2023. It is the district capital of Okongo Constituency. History Okongo was first settled by the San people in the 1900s, who, as a hunter-ga ...
. The constituency shares boundaries with
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to the North, the Oshikoto region to the South,
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on the Eastern part, and Oshikunde on the West. The constituency originally covered an area of . In August 2013, following a recommendation of the ''Fourth Delimitation Commission of
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'', and in preparation for the 2014 general election,
Okongo Okongo is a village in the Ohangwena Region of northern Namibia. It had a population of 3,564 people in 2023. It is the district capital of Okongo Constituency. History Okongo was first settled by the San people in the 1900s, who, as a hunter-ga ...
constituency lost its western part, which since then forms a constituency on its own,
Oshikunde Constituency Oshikunde Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Ohangwena Region of Namibia. , it has 8,062 registered voters. Oshikunde Constituency was created in August 2013 from the western part of Okongo Constituency, following a recommendation ...
.


Politics

As is common in all constituencies of former
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, Namibia's ruling
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has dominated elections since
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. In the 2004 regional election,
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candidate Paulus Mwahanyekange received 6,679 of the 6,709 votes cast. It won the 2015 regional election by a landslide. Its candidate Fanuel Ndadi gathered 5,766 votes, while the only opposition candidate, Waldeheim Kanalelo of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), received 241 votes. The 2020 regional election was also won by the
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candidate. Efraim Lebeus received 5,072 votes, far ahead of Tobias Shingo of the
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(IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, who obtained 469 votes.


References

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