Endola is an electoral 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 aa well as the self-governed village of Okongo. , Ohangwena had 150,724 registered voters. Ohang ...

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, on the border of

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. It had 36,659 inhabitants in 2004 and 14,100 registered voters . The district centre is the settlement of Endola. Ferdinand Ingashipola Shifidi became a councillor of the constituency in November 2014 and was re-elected in 2015 and in 2020. The constituency is hard-hit by the drought just like the rest of the northern region, but the situation was made worse by lack of drinking water for people and their animals as many water points were disconnected because of unpaid bills. The constituency is also faced with the issue of people who have no national documents. Endola is a flood-prone area with many water pans therefore, good roads are needed to avoid a situation where villages are totally cut off during the rainy season. On the crime front, the constituency is badly affected as it has only one police station at Ongha.

Politics

As is common in all constituencies of former Owamboland, Namibia's ruling

SWAPO Party 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 ...

has dominated elections since

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. Ruth Nhinda (SWAPO) was regional councillor for the Endola constituency from 2004. Her death in 2014 necessitated a

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

which was won by Ferdinand Shifidi, also SWAPO. Shifidi was reelected in the 2015 regional election, gathering 5,703 votes, while the only opposition candidate, Hafeni Pius of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), received 398 votes. Shifidi was again reelected in the 2020 regional election; he received 4,892 votes. Runner-up became Tulipohamba Nghiueuelekwa the

Independent Patriots for Change The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) is a political party in Namibia. It was founded by Panduleni Itula in August 2020. As an independent presidential candidate in the November 2019 election, Itula won the best result of a losing candidat ...

(IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, who obtained 1,121 votes.

References

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