Rundu Urban is an electoral constituency in the

Kavango East Kavango East is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia. Its capital is Rundu, its governor is Bonifatius Wakudumo. The Region was created in 2013 when the Kavango Region was split into Kavango East and Kavango West. The only self-governed settle ...

region 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 covers the urban area of

Rundu Rundu is the capital and largest city of the Kavango-East Region in northern Namibia. It lies on the border with Angola on the banks of the Kavango River about above sea level. Rundu's population is growing rapidly. The 2001 census counted 36,9 ...

, the region's capital and one of Namibia's largest cities. The constituency also covers parts of the Sauyemwa, Safari, Tutungeni, Katutura, Donkerhoek and Kehemu neighborhoods.ELECTIONS 2010: Rundu constituencies profile
'' New Era'', 9 November 2010 It had a population of 20,953 in 2011, up from 19,173 in 2001. the constituency had 35,740 registered voters. In 2013 the Kavango Region of which Rundu was the capital, was split into Kavango East and

Kavango West Kavango West is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia. Its capital and only self-governed settlement is Nkurenkuru, its governor is Sirkka Ausiku. The Region was created in 2013 when the Kavango Region was split into Kavango East and Kavango ...

. Rundu became the capital of Kavango East, and Rundu Urban also belongs to this region.

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Ambrosius Haingura Ambrosius Hamutenya Haingura (30 June 1957 – 21 September 2000) was a Namibian activist and politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), he was an internal activist during the Namibian War of Independence. Followin ...

, a prominent internal SWAPO organizer prior to independence, was the first councillor elected to represent Rundu Urban in the 1992 regional elections. He was re-elected in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

and served until his death in September 2000. In the 2004 regional elections Nimrod Muremi (SWAPO), an agriculturalist, was elected councillor. The 2010 regional elections were contested by incumbent Muremi (SWAPO), Sabine Kapango Dos Santos of All People's Party (APP), Vaino Sipete Matende of Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) and Thimotheus Kashindereki. SWAPO's Muremi won the constituency with 75% of all votes. The 2015 regional elections were again a landslide win for SWAPO. Victoria Mbawo Kauma received 7,738 votes while Ladislaus Poroto Shindimba of the APP received 1,202 votes. The election was also contested by candidates of RDP and the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA). Kauma was re-elected in the 2020 regional election, winning with 4,731 votes, 70% of the total. Several other candidates contested the election, none of them obtaining 10% of the votes cast.

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