Oniipa Constituency
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Oniipa Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Oshikoto Region of Namibia. It had 23,913 inhabitants in 2004[1] and 14,236 registered voters in 2020[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[2] The constituency office is situated in the settlement of Oniipa. Further settlements in this constituency are Oshigambo, and Onandjokwe.[3]
Politics
Oniipa constituency is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. In the 2004 regional election SWAPO candidate Johannes Sheepo Shiindi received 6,748 of the 6,850 votes cast.[4] Shiindi was reelected in the 2010 regional elections with 95.5% of all votes cast in the constituency.[5]
In the 2015 local and regional elections the SWAPO candidate won uncontested and became councillor after no opposition party nominated a candidate.[6] The SWAPO candidate also won the 2020 regional election. Vilho Nuunyango received 3,930 votes, well ahead of Mateus Elifas of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), a party formed in August 2020, who obtained 1,717 votes.[2]
See also
References
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