Anamulenge Constituency

{{short description|Electoral constituency in the Omusati region of northern Namibia}}

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Anamulenge Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Omusati Region of northern Namibia. It had 11,186 registered voters {{As of|2020|alt=in 2020}}.{{Cite web | title=Regional Council 2020 Election Results | publisher=Electoral Commission of Namibia | date=18 January 2021 | series=Interactive map | url=http://elections.na/ | accessdate=23 October 2021 | archive-date=12 June 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612210020/https://elections.na/ | url-status=dead }} Its district capital is the settlement of Anamulenge.

Anamulenge Constituency covers an area of {{Convert|354|sqkm|abbr=on}}. It had a population of 13,410 in 2011, up from 12,617 in 2001.{{cite web | title=Chapter 2: Population Structure, Composition and Density | url=https://cms.my.na/assets/documents/p19dptss1qjep16pd1d0utqf1uq84.pdf | work=Omusati 2011 Census Regional Profile | publisher=Namibia Statistics Agency | access-date=29 January 2025 | page=4}} The Onhokolo settlement belongs to the constituency.{{cite news | title=Untreated water from wells only source for Omusati villagers | last=Shivute | first=Oswald | date=20 December 2012 | newspaper=The Namibian | page=5 | url=https://www.namibian.com.na/untreated-water-from-wells-only-source-for-omusati-villagers/}}

Politics

Anamulenge is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. In the 2004 regional election SWAPO candidate Aipinge Joseph Kanyenye Aluvilu won uncontested and became councillor after no opposition party nominated a candidate.{{Cite news | title=Electoral Act, 1992: Notification of Result of General Election for Regional Councils | newspaper=Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia | issue=3366 | page=6 | publisher=Government of Namibia | date=3 January 2005 | url=http://www.lac.org.na/laws/2005/3366.pdf | format=pdf}}

In the 2015 local and regional elections SWAPO candidate Werner Kalipi won uncontested and became councillor after no opposition party nominated a candidate.{{Cite news | title=Opposition parties are mosquitoes, says Kawana | newspaper=The Namibian | date=26 October 2015 | url=http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?page=read&id=33243}} The SWAPO candidate won the 2020 regional election by a landslide. Tylves Angala obtained 3,664 votes, followed by independent candidate Erphas Heita with 361 votes and Joseph Shiningayamwe of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, with 241 votes.