Windhoek Rural is a constituency in the

Khomas Region Khomas is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia. Its name refers to the Khomas Highland, a high plateau landscape that dominates this administrative unit. Khomas is centered on the capital city Windhoek and provides for this reason superior trans ...

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. Its district capital is the settlement of Groot Aub. It had a population of 22,254 in 2011, up from 20,212 in 2001. , it has 13,625 registered voters. Copper-70664

Windhoek Rural contains all settlements in the Khomas Region that are outside the city of

Windhoek Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 20 ...

, among them: *

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Brakwater Brakwater (Afrikaans: ''brackish water'') is a settlement north of Windhoek in the Khomas Region of Namibia. It belongs to the Windhoek Rural electoral constituency. Brakwater was the end point of the first 17 km of non-gravel road in South Wes ...

* Dordabis *

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* Nauchas *

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Seeis Seeis ( �seːaɪs hz, Okangondo) is a small settlement in the Khomas Region of central Namibia. It is situated on the B6 national road east of Hosea Kutako International Airport on the turnoff of the dirt road D1458. The ''Seeis Rivier'', a ...

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The main economic activity in this constituency is farming and related work like gardening, seed production, and firewood collection; 90% of the area consists of commercial farms.

Politics

The 2004 regional election was won by Frederick Arie of the

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who took over from Albert Tsuoub of the

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(DTA). The 2015 regional election were also won by SWAPO whose Penina Ita gained 2,372 votes. Willem Hendrik Vries of the

(DTA) came second with 848 votes, followed by Bernard Gaoseb of the Republican Party (RP) with 415 votes. The 2020 regional election was narrowly won by Piet Adams of the

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(LPM, a new party registered in 2018). He obtained 1,645 votes, followed by Johannes Elago (SWAPO) with 1,563 votes. Magdalena Haukelo of the

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(IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, came in third with 1,099 votes, followed by Marthineo Dierkse of the

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(PDM, the new name of the DTA) with 714 votes.

References

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