Windhoek West Constituency is an electoral constituency in the

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. It contains the affluent suburbs of

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, Pioneers Park,

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Rocky Crest 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 ...

Windhoek North 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 202 ...

and

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. It had a population of 53,438 in 2011, up from 42,201 in 2001. , it has 33,556 registered voters.

Politics

The first councillor of this constituency was

Henk Mudge Henry Ferdinand Mudge (known as Henk) (born February 18, 1952) is a Namibian politician and President of the Republican Party.Democratic Turnhalle Alliance The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), formerly the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), is an amalgamation of political parties in Namibia, registered as one singular party for representation purposes. In coalition with the United Democratic ...

(DTA). In 2002 Sophia Shaningwa of the

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 ...

won the seat and served for a six-year term. In 2010 Shikwetepo Haindongo (SWAPO) took over as councillor of Windhoek West. When Haindongo died in August 2014 a by-election was held in November which was won overwhelmingly by Georg Trepper of SWAPO. Trepper was reelected in the 2015 regional election with 3,781 of the 5,477 votes, followed by Sophia Panizza (DTA, 1,175 votes) and Maureen Dunn of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) with 521 votes. In the 2020 regional election the SWAPO candidate won narrowly. Emma Muteka obtained 3,250 votes, followed by Jacobus Visagie of the

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(IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, with 3,247 votes.

References

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