Okahandja Constituency

Okahandja Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. It had 18,155 people living there in 2004Constituencies of Namibia, 2004 and 18,109 voters . The constituency is made of the town of Okahandja and the surrounding rural area.

Politics
The 2015 regional election was won by Steve Biko Booys of the SWAPO Party with 3,280 votes. Independent candidate Welfriedt Groeitjie Goaseb gained 501 votes. 

The SWAPO candidate also won the 2020 regional election. Bethuel Tjaveondja received 2,451 votes, more than Frisia Ambondja of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), a party formed in August 2020, which got 1,057 votes. Other people ran, such as Belinda Garoes of the United Democratic Front (UDF, 599 votes), Willem Veiko of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM, the new name of the DTA, 350 votes), and Tjitee Mujoro of the Landless People's Movement (LPM, a new party registered in 2018, 332 votes).

References

Category:Constituencies of Otjozondjupa Region
Category:States and territories established in the 1990s
Category:1992 establishments in Africa