Oshikunde Constituency

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Oshikunde constituency (red) in the Ohangwena Region (yellow) of Namibia Wahlkreis Oshikunde (2014).svg
Oshikunde constituency (red) in the Ohangwena Region (yellow) of Namibia

Oshikunde Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Ohangwena Region of Namibia. As of 2020, it has 8,062 registered voters. [1]

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Oshikunde Constituency was created in August 2013, following a recommendation of the Fourth Delimitation Commission of Namibia, and in preparation of the 2014 general election. [2] The administrative centre of Oshikunde Constituency is the settlement of Omutwewomunu. [3]

The constituency is sharing boundaries with Cunene Province in Southern Angola in the North, Oshikoto Region in the South, Okongo Constituency in the East, and Omundaungilo and Epembe in the North-West and North-East respectively.

Politics

As is common in all constituencies of former Owamboland, Namibia's ruling SWAPO Party has dominated elections since independence.

It won the 2015 regional election by a landslide. Its candidate Lonia Kaishungu-Shinana gathered 4,049 votes, while the only opposition candidate, Martin Hailonga of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), received 72 votes. [4] Councillor Kaishungu was reelected in the 2020 regional election with 3,796 votes. Distant runner-up was Joshua Haunawa of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, who obtained 344 votes. [1]

Education

The Dr Abraham Iyambo Senior Secondary School is located in the constituency.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Regional Council 2020 Election Results". Interactive map. Electoral Commission of Namibia. 18 January 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "Creation of new regions and division and re-division of certain regions into constituencies: Regional Councils Act, 1992" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia (5261). Government of Namibia. 9 August 2013. pp. 18–19.
  3. ↑ Nakale, Albertina (9 August 2013). "President divides Kavango into two". New Era . via allafrica.com. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Alt URL
  4. ↑ "Regional Council Election Results 2015". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 3 December 2015. p. 14. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.


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