Local Authority Council and Regional Council Elections in Namibia were held from 30 November to 3 December 1992. It was the first set of such election elections since independence of Namibia.

SWAPO The South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO ; , SWAVO; , SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former independence movement in Namibia (formerly South West Africa). Founded in 1960, it has been ...

won a majority of seats in both Local Authority Councils and Regional Councils. There was some

violence Violence is characterized as the use of physical force by humans to cause harm to other living beings, or property, such as pain, injury, disablement, death, damage and destruction. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence a ...

during the election, including the killing of a DTA candidate by SWAPO militants.

Electoral system

Elections for regional councils are held using the

first-past-the-post First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or First-preference votes, first-preference, and the cand ...

electoral system. Voters in each constituency elect one councillor to represent them on their regional council. Local authority councillors are elected by a system of

proportional representation Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) amon ...

Results

Local Authority Councils

Regional Councils

A total of 534,437 voters were registered, but 64,431 were in uncontested constituencies.30 November – 03 December 1992 - Analysis of Results, Regional Councils (RC) Elections
Electoral Commission of Namibia

References

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Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

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