Outapi Constituency
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Outapi Constituency (until 1998 Uutapi Constituency)[1] is an electoral constituency in the Omusati Region of Namibia on the border of Angola. It had 23,516 registered voters in 2020[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[2] Its district capital is the town of Outapi. Outapi Constituency covers an area of Script error: No such module "convert".. It had a population of 36,934 in 2011, up from 13,121 in 2001.[3]
Politics
Outapi constituency is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. The 2004 regional election was won by SWAPO politician Tataati Simon Shilekah. He received 9,802 of the 9,861 votes cast.[4]
In the 2015 local and regional elections SWAPO candidate Fillemon Shikwambi won uncontested and became councillor after no opposition party nominated a candidate.[5] The SWAPO candidate won the 2020 regional election by a large margin. Immanuel Shikongo obtained 8,682 votes, followed by Frans Taapopi of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, with 1,094 votes.[2]
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