General elections were held in

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on 4 and 5 December 1994. Each registered voter could poll two votes, one for president (the first time a president was to be directly elected) and one for the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

. Both elections were won by

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, which won 53 of the 72 seats in the National Assembly, and whose candidate,

Sam Nujoma Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma ( ; 12May 19298February 2025) was a Namibian revolutionary, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served three terms as the first president of Namibia, from 1990 to 2005. Nujoma was a founding member and t ...

, won the presidential election by more than three-fourth of the polled votes. The elections were the first since Namibia's independence from South Africa.

Results

President

National Assembly

By region

References

Presidential elections in Namibia Parliamentary elections in Namibia

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National Assembly (Namibia)

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