Rehoboth Urban East constituency (red) in the Hardap Region (yellow)

Rehoboth Urban East is an electoral constituency in the Hardap region of Namibia, comprising the suburbs of Rehoboth that are situated to the east of the national road B1. It had a population of 18,035 in 2011, up from 12,891 in 2001.[1] As of 2020 the constituency had 12,112 registered voters.[2]

Politics

The 2015 regional elections were won by Edward Alfred Wambo of SWAPO with 3,250 votes. Frans Josef Bertolini of the United People's Movement (UPM) came second with 1,090 votes, followed by Marius ǃKharigub of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP, 393 votes) and Johannes Lukas de Klerk of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA, 227 votes).[3] Wambo was narrowly reelected in the 2020 regional election and is now the only SWAPO councillor in Hardap Region. He obtained 1,829 votes. Bartholomeus Pieters of the Landless People's Movement (LPM, a new party registered in 2018) came second with 1,756 votes.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Hardap 2011 Census Regional Profile" (PDF). Statistics Namibia. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Regional Council 2020 Election Results". Interactive map. Electoral Commission of Namibia. 18 January 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "Regional Council Election Results 2015". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 3 December 2015. p. 5. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.

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