Omulonga Constituency

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

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Omulonga is a constituency in the Ohangwena Region of northern Namibia. It had 13,585 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=16 July 2021}} The constituency office is located at Onamukulo, along the Ondobe-Oshigambo district road. Omulonga constituency covers an area of {{Convert|597|sqkm|abbr=on}}. It had a population of 32,581 in 2011, up from 31,465 in 2001.{{cite web | title=Chapter 2: Population Structure, Composition and Density | url=https://cms.my.na/assets/documents/p19dptss1r7ao1dp7d3b1oibgvoq.pdf | work=Ohangwena 2011 Census Regional Profile | publisher=Namibia Statistics Agency | access-date=1 January 2025 | page=4}}

Omulonga Constituency was created in 2003 at the recommendation of the Third Delimitation Commission of Namibia, and in preparation of the 2004 general election. Its territory previously belonged to four different constituencies: Oshikango, Ondobe, Eenhana, and Endola.{{Cite news | title=Re-division of certain regions into constituencies: Regional Councils Act, 1992 | newspaper=Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia | issue=2942 | pages=7–10 | publisher=Government of Namibia | date=28 March 2003 | url=http://www.lac.org.na/laws/2003/2942.pdf | format=pdf}}

The constituency is sharing boundaries with Ondobe Constituency on the North, Oshana Region on the South, Eenhana Constituency on the Eastern part and Endola Constituency on the West. It contains the settlements of Onandova, Okaonde, Onaihenda, Ombalamumbwenge, Esaati, Onangwe, Oshali, Ohaukelo, Onashali, Omakondo, Omokolo, Ohepa, Onailonga,{{cite news | publisher = Electoral Commission of Namibia | title = Presidential and National Assembly Elections 2009 | work = Supplement to several Namibian newspapers | date = November 2009}} and Onamukulo.

Politics

As is common in all constituencies of former Ovamboland, Namibia's ruling SWAPO Party has dominated elections since independence. In the 2004 regional election SWAPO candidate Anna Kufu received 8,759 of the 8,835 votes cast.{{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=8 | publisher=Government of Namibia | date=3 January 2005 | url=http://www.lac.org.na/laws/2005/3366.pdf | format=pdf}}

It won the 2015 regional election by a landslide. Its candidate Erickson Ndawanifa gathered 5,785 votes, while the only opposition candidate, Jona Thomas of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), received 140 votes.{{Cite web | title=Regional Council Election Results 2015 | publisher=Electoral Commission of Namibia | date=3 December 2015 | pages=13–14 | 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 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=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 | archivedate=8 December 2015 }} Councillor Ndawanifa of SWAPO was reelected in the 2020 regional election. He received 5,102 votes, far ahead of Lazarus Nangolo of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, who obtained 833 votes.

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