Omundaungilo Constituency
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Omundaungilo 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. Ohangw ...
of
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, on the border to
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. It has 8,085 inhabitants in 2004 and 6,642 registered voters .


Politics

As is common in all constituencies of former
Owamboland Ovamboland, also referred to as Owamboland, was a Bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Ovambo people. The term originally referred to the parts of ...
, 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
independence Independence is a condition of a person, nation, country, or state in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the statu ...
. It won the 2015 regional election by a landslide. Its candidate Festus Ikanda gathered 3,012 votes, while the only opposition candidate, Jason Haufiku of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), received 89 votes. Councillor Ikanda of SWAPO was reelected in the 2020 regional election. He received 2,800 votes, far ahead of Lamek Nanghalu 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, who obtained 287 votes.


References

Constituencies of Ohangwena Region States and territories established in 1992 1992 establishments in Namibia {{Namibia-gov-stub