Keetmanshoop Urban

Keetmanshoop Urban is a constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. As of December 2019 it had 11,534 registered voters.[1] It comprises the city of Keetmanshoop, except the Krönlein suburb.[2] It had a population of 19,447 in 2011, up from 15,777 in 2001.[3]

Keetmanshoop Urban constituency (yellow) in the ǁKaras Region (dark grey)

Politics

Regional and local elections

In the 2015 regional elections Hilma Nicanor of SWAPO, was reelected with 2,291 votes. She had been councillor of Keetmanshoop Urban since 2004 and defeated challengers Fredrik Kuhlmann of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA, 551 votes) and Peter John Visser of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP, 378 votes).[4][5] After councillor Nicanor was fielded as a parliamentary candidate in the 2019 Namibian general election, a by-election became necessary for Keetmannshoop Urban because Namibian electoral law prohibits sitting councillors and members of the public service to run for a seat in parliament.[6] The by-election was conducted on 15 January 2020. Maxie Minnaar of the Landless People's Movement won with 1,958 votes, followed by Festus Shilimela (SWAPO, 1,306 votes) and Abraham ǀGoagoseb (Popular Democratic Movement, 292 votes).[1] Minnaar died in August 2020. Considering that the next regional election is only months away the Electoral Commission of Namibia decided to keep the councillor position vacant until then.[7]

General elections
Namibian general election, 2014
Party Votes %
SWAPO 3,933 70.4%
DTA 550 9.8%
RDP 355 6.4%
Republican Party 158 2.8%
All People's Party 135 2.4%
Democratic Party of Namibia 80 1.4%
Monitor Action Group 71 1.3%
Workers Revolutionary Party 63 1.1%
COD 46 0.8%
United People's Movement 39 0.7%
United Democratic Front 37 0.7%
Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters 34 0.6%
Total votes 5,590 100.0%
Registered voters 10,197 54.8%
Source: Electoral Commission of Namibia

References
  1. "Results for Regional Council By Elections for the Gobabis, Keetmanshoop Urban, Khomasdal and Walvis Bay Urban Constituencies" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Namibia. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  2. Sasman, Catherine (10 November 2010). "Karas profile". New Era. Archived from the original on 15 May 2012.
  3. "Karas 2011 Census Regional Profile" (PDF). Statistics Namibia. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  4. "Regional Council Election Results 2015". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 3 December 2015. p. 1. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
  5. "Nicanor Hilma Ndinelago". Parliament of Namibia. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  6. "By-elections set for January". The Namibian. 18 October 2019.
  7. Tjitemisa, Kuzeeko (17 August 2020). "No new by-election for Keetmanshoop". New Era.


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