Ohangwena Constituency

This article is about the constituency, the second-level administrative unit of Namibia. For the first-level administrative unit, see Ohangwena Region. For the suburb and former village of Ohangwena, see Helao Nafidi.
Location of Ohangwena constituency (yellow) in the Ohangwena Region (dark grey)

Ohangwena is a constituency in the town of Helao Nafidi in the Ohangwena Region of northern Namibia, on the border to Angola. It has 17,539 inhabitants,[1] and covers Helao Nafidi's Ohangwena suburb from which it has its name.

Politics

As is common in all constituencies of former Owamboland, Namibia's ruling SWAPO Party won the 2015 regional election by a landslide. Its candidate Johannes Hakanyome gathered 5,778 votes, while the opposition candidates Jeremia Haufiku of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) and Lukas Mbabi of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), received 346 and 123 votes, respectively.[2]

References

Coordinates: 17°28′S 15°53′E / 17.467°S 15.883°E / -17.467; 15.883


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