Regional council elections in Namibia 2020

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The regional council elections in Namibia 2020 are to take place on November 27, 2020, parallel to the local elections .

These are to be the first elections since 2014 to take place with ballot papers instead of the voting machines used in previous years . The background to this is a supreme court decision on the use of voting machines, which may no longer be used for verification without a paper printout. In view of the COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia , the electoral commission does not want to spend the approximately 133 million Namibian dollars required for equipment .

Voter registration for new voters and changed voters should take place from September 7th to 15th, 2020.

Starting position

  
A total of 121 seats
  • SWAPO : 109
  • Otherwise: 12

In the 2015 regional council elections , SWAPO achieved its best result since independence in 1990. All 14 regions have since been governed by SWAPO alone. No other party is represented on the regional council in nine regions. Only in the regions of Erongo , Hardap , Kunene , Omaheke and Otjozondjupa could opposition parties or an independent candidate (Omaheke) win a total of nine seats. SWAPO held 112 seats on regional councils, up from 98 in the previous legislature.

The big loser in the 2015 election was the UDF , which lost the majority in the Kunene Regional Council and could no longer win a seat. The turnout was just 36.6 percent.

Various by-elections have been held since the last election, including in June and August 2019 as well as in January and March 2020. These changed the above-mentioned distribution of seats to 109 for SWAPO and 12 for opposition parties.

Election result

Political party abbreviation Voting shares Seats
Affirmative repositioning * AR -, -%
All People's Party APP -, -%
Christian Democratic Voice Party CDV -, -%
Congress of Democrats COD -, -%
Independent Patriots for Change * IPC -, -%
Landless People's Movement LPM -, -%
Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters NEFF -, -%
National Democratic Party of Namibia NDP -, -%
National Patriotic Front NPF -, -%
National Unity Democratic Organization of Namibia NUDO -, -%
Popular Democratic Movement PDM -, -%
Rally for Democracy and Progress RDP -, -%
Republican Party of Namibia RP -, -%
SWANU of Namibia SWANU -, -%
SWAPO SWAPO -, -%
United Democratic Front of Namibia UDF -, -%
Workers Revolutionary Party WRP -, -%
Civic associations -, -%
Total seats - - 121
Total (voter turnout -, -%)
source

* Political organization, not a registered party.

Individual regions

region HE HA KA KE KW KH KU OW OH OS ON OT OD CA
Political party % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats
APP
CDV
COD
LPM
NEFF
NDP
NPF
NUDO
PDM
RDP
RP
SWANU
SWAPO
UDF
WRP
Independent

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Press statement. ECN, June 19, 2020.
  2. ↑ Ballot papers to return in November elections. New Era, June 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b NAMIBIA Election Results Local Authorities and Regional Councils. Allgemeine Zeitung, December 8, 2015.
  4. ^ By-elections set for January. The Namibian, October 18, 2019.