Rehoboth Urban East 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 provi ...

in the

Hardap Hardap is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Mariental. Hardap contains the municipality of Mariental, the towns Rehoboth and Aranos, and the self-governed villages Gibeon, Gochas, Kalkrand, Stampriet and Maltahöhe. I ...

region 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 ...

, comprising the suburbs of Rehoboth that are situated to the east of the national road B1, covering an area of . It had a population of 18,035 in 2011, up from 12,891 in 2001. the constituency had 12,112 registered voters.

Politics

Rehoboth 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 Edward Alfred Wambo received 2,704 of the 4,869 votes cast and became councillor. The 2015 regional elections again saw Wambo (SWAPO) reelected with 3,250 votes. Frans Josef Bertolini of the United People's Movement (UPM) came second with 1,090 votes, followed by Marius ǃKharigub of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP, 393 votes) and Johannes Lukas de Klerk of the

Democratic Turnhalle Alliance The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), formerly 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 Front ...

(DTA, 227 votes). Wambo was narrowly reelected in the 2020 regional election and is now the only SWAPO councillor in Hardap Region. He obtained 1,829 votes. Bartholomeus Pieters of the

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(LPM, a new party registered in 2018) came second with 1,756 votes.

References

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