Tsumeb Constituency
{{short description|Electoral constituency in the Oshikoto region of northern Namibia}}
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Tsumeb Constituency (until 1999 Oshikoto 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, comprising the town area and surroundings of Tsumeb. It had a population of 44,113 in 2004[http://www.statoids.com/yna.html Constituencies of Namibia, 2004] and 19,065 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}}
Politics
Tsumeb constituency is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. In the 2004 regional election SWAPO candidate Lebbeus Tobias received 3,371 of the 4,531 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}}
As in all constituencies in Oshikoto, SWAPO won the 2015 regional election by a landslide. Councillor Tobias gained 4,358 votes and was reelected, while the only opposition candidate Richard Hoeseb of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) gained 748.{{Cite web | title=Regional Council Election Results 2015 | publisher=Electoral Commission of Namibia | date=3 December 2015 | page=19 | 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 }} The SWAPO candidate also won the 2020 regional election, albeit by a much smaller margin. Gottlieb Ndjendjela received 3,640 votes, while Matti Amoolongo of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), a party formed in August 2020, obtained 2,016 votes. Kariiwe Kuhanga of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM, the new name of the DTA) came third with 322 votes.
See also
References
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