Okorukambe Constituency

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Okorukambe Constituency (red) in the Omaheke Region

Okorukambe Constituency, until 2013 Steinhausen Constituency, [1] is an electoral constituency in the Omaheke Region of Namibia. It had 9,066 inhabitants in 2004 [2] and 5,818 registered voters in 2020. [3] Its district capital is the settlement of Steinhausen. It further contains the settlements of Witvlei and Omitara. [4]

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Politics

SWAPO politician and deputy minister of Works and Transport Kilus Nguvauva was the councillor of this constituency from the 1998 regional election. [5] He was reelected in the 2004 regional elections, gaining 1,610 of the 2,903 votes cast, [6] and he also remained councillor after the 2010 regional elections. [5]

The 2015 regional election was likewise won by a SWAPO candidate. Raphael Mokaleng gained 1,898 votes, followed by Emgardt Kandovazu of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) with 352 votes and Eskaline Ganes of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) with 164 votes. Lukas Mbangu of the All People's Party also ran and got 45 votes. [7]

The SWAPO candidate also won the 2020 regional election. Rocco Nguvauva obtained 1,465 votes, followed by Laurentius Kamanda of the Landless People's Movement (LPM, a new party registered in 2018, 489 votes) and Kavehorere Murangi of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM, the new name of the DTA) with 482 votes. [3]

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