Kabbe North constituency (red) in the Zambezi Region (yellow)

Kabbe North is an electoral constituency of the Zambezi Region of Namibia. As of 2020, the constituency had 3,916 registered voters.[1]

Kabbe North was created in August 2013 from the north-western part of Kabbe Constituency,[2] following a recommendation of the Fourth Delimitation Commission of Namibia to split Kabbe, and in preparation of the 2014 general election.[3]

Politics

The 2015 regional election was won by Peter Mwala of the SWAPO Party with 1,487 votes, followed by Calvin Ngandi Ngandi of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) with 63 votes.[4] The 2020 regional election was also won by the SWAPO candidate. Bernard Kamwi Sisamu obtained 1,116 votes, ahead of Joseph Likando Matali from the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020 with 292 votes, and Cooks Mukuwa Muyoba from the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) with 136 votes.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Regional Council 2020 Election Results". Interactive map. Electoral Commission of Namibia. 18 January 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "Creation of new regions and division and re-division of certain regions into constituencies: Regional Councils Act, 1992" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 5261. Government of Namibia. 9 August 2013. p. 26.
  3. ↑ Nakale, Albertina (9 August 2013). "President divides Kavango into two". New Era. via allafrica.com. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Regional Council Election Results 2015". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 3 December 2015. p. 22. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.


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