Ndonga Linena Constituency

{{short description|Electoral constituency in the Kavango East region of north-eastern Namibia}}

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Ndonga Linena Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Kavango East Region of Namibia. It was created in August 2013, following a recommendation of the Fourth Delimitation Commission of Namibia, and in preparation of the 2014 general election. The administrative centre of Ndonga Linena Constituency is the settlement of Ndonga Linena.{{cite news

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|publisher=allafrica.com}} Ndonga Linena was formed from the western part of the Ndiyona Constituency.{{Cite news | title=Creation of new regions and division and re-division of certain regions into constituencies: Regional Councils Act, 1992 | newspaper=Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia | issue=5261 | page=22 | publisher=Government of Namibia | date=9 August 2013 | url=http://www.lac.org.na/laws/2013/5261.pdf | format=pdf | access-date=13 March 2024 | archive-date=27 April 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427123633/https://www.parliament.na/index.php/archive/category/39-2013?download=1979:5261&start=140 | url-status=live }} {{As of|2020}} the constituency had 6,597 registered voters.{{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=19 May 2021}}

Politics

The 2015 regional elections were won by Petrus Muyenga Kavhura of SWAPO. He received 2,623 votes. Nelson Joseph Murora of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) came second with 225 votes.{{Cite web | title=Regional Council Election Results 2015 | publisher=Electoral Commission of Namibia | date=3 December 2015 | page=6 | url=http://www.ecn.na/documents/27857/223442/Regional+Counils+Election+Results_Duly+elected+candidates+2015.pdf/32493774-80b3-4be3-9ca1-1f6ce187673a?version=1.0 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208163948/http://www.ecn.na/documents/27857/223442/Regional+Counils+Election+Results_Duly+elected+candidates+2015.pdf/32493774-80b3-4be3-9ca1-1f6ce187673a?version=1.0 | url-status=dead | archive-date=8 December 2015 }} The SWAPO candidate also won the 2020 regional election. Michael Shiwana Kampota obtained 1,073 votes, narrowly ahead of Balthazar Daniel Djami of the All People's Party (APP), who obtained 1,061 votes.

See also

References

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