Okongo Constituency

Okongo is a constituency in the Ohangwena Region of Namibia, on the border to Angola. It has 21,321 inhabitants.[1] The main settlement and district capital is Okongo. The constituency is sharing boundaries with Angola on the North, Oshikoto region on the South, Kavango West on the Eastern part, and Oshikunde on the West. The constituency has a population size of 17 999, as per the 2011 National Housing Population Census of 2011 and about 3601 number of households which make up to 8.24% of the total number of households in the region. Roughly 70% of the households in the constituency use water from wells and boreholes.[2]

Okongo constituency (yellow) in the Ohangwena Region (dark grey)

Politics

As is common in all constituencies of former Owamboland, Namibia's ruling SWAPO Party won the 2015 regional election by a landslide. Its candidate Fanuel Ndadi gathered 5,766 votes, while the only opposition candidate, Waldeheim Kanalelo of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), received 241 votes.[3]

References
  1. Constituencies of Namibia, 2004
  2. http://www.ohangwenarc.gov.na/maps
  3. "Regional Council Election Results 2015". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 3 December 2015. p. 13. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.


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