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Onyaanya Constituency

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

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Onyaanya Constituency (until 1999 Okatope Constituency){{Cite news | title=Amendment of Proclamation No. 25 of 1 September 1992, as amended by Proclamation No. 16 of 31 August 1998 | newspaper=Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia | issue=2233 | page=2 | publisher=Government of Namibia | date=22 November 1999 | url=http://www.lac.org.na/laws/1999/2233.pdf | format=pdf}} is an electoral constituency in the Oshikoto Region of Namibia. It had 13,474 inhabitants in 2004[http://www.statoids.com/yna.html Constituencies of Namibia, 2004] and 11,434 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=24 February 2022}} Its district capital is the settlement of Onyaanya.

Politics

Onyaanya constituency is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. In the 2004 regional election SWAPO candidate Henock Kankoshi received 6,329 of the 6,359 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=9 | publisher=Government of Namibia | date=3 January 2005 | url=http://www.lac.org.na/laws/2005/3366.pdf | format=pdf}} He was subsequently elected to represent Oshikoto Region in the National Council of Namibia.{{cite web

|url = http://www.nid.org.na/view_book_entry.php?book_id=79

|title = Who's Who, Kankoshi, Henock Tangeni - Swapo

|publisher = Namibian Institute for Democracy

|accessdate = 21 February 2012

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120505144706/http://www.nid.org.na/view_book_entry.php?book_id=79

|archivedate = 5 May 2012

}} Kankoshi was reelected in the 2010 regional elections and became governor of Oshikoto in 2015.{{Cite news | title=President announces governors | newspaper=The Namibian | date=10 April 2015 | url=https://www.namibian.com.na/president-announces-governors | access-date=14 April 2015 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20150414075438/http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=25471 | archive-date=14 April 2015 | url-status=live}}

In the 2015 local and regional elections the SWAPO candidate won uncontested and became councillor after no opposition party nominated a candidate.{{cite news|last=Kangootui |first=Nomhle |newspaper=The Namibian |title=Swapo gets ǃNamiǂNûs uncontested |url=http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?page=read&id=33153 |date=23 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151024163513/http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?page=read&id=33153 |archivedate=October 24, 2015 }} The SWAPO candidate also won the 2020 regional election. Gideon Shikomba received 4,023 votes, well ahead of Onesmus Kapuka of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), a party formed in August 2020, who obtained 1,063 votes.

Education

Villages

  • Amuteya Village

See also

References

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