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Okatana Constituency is an
electoral constituency
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other poli ...
in the
Oshana Region
Oshana is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Oshakati. The towns of Oshakati, Ongwediva and Ondangwa, all situated with this region, form an urban cluster with the second largest population concentration in Namibia after the ...
of
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 ea ...
. It had 15,562 inhabitants in 2004
and 9,111 registered voters .
Its district capital is the settlement of
Okatana.
Politics
Oktana constituency is traditionally a stronghold of the
South West Africa People's Organization
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 ...
(SWAPO) party. In the
2015 local and regional elections the SWAPO candidate won uncontested and became councillor after no opposition party nominated a candidate.
The SWAPO candidate won the
2020 regional election by a large margin. Edmund Iishuwa obtained 3,477 votes, followed by George Uusiku of 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 2019 Namibian general election, November 2019 election, Itula won the b ...
(IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, with 715 votes.
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References
Constituencies of Oshana Region
States and territories established in 1992
1992 establishments in Namibia
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