Keetmanshoop Urban
Keetmanshoop Urban is a constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. It comprises the city of Keetmanshoop, except the Krönlein suburb, covering an area of. It had a population of 19,447 in 2011, up from 15,777 in 2001. the constituency had 12,569 registered voters, up from 11,534 in 2019.
Politics
Keetmanshoop Rural is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization party. Four of the six seats in the local authority election of 2020 were won by the Landless People's Movement party, however.Regional and local elections
In the 2004 regional elections, Hilma Nicanor was elected with 1,872 of the 3,803 votes cast.In the 2015 regional elections Councillor Nicanor was again reelected with 2,291 votes. She defeated challengers Fredrik Kuhlmann of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance and Peter John Visser of the Rally for Democracy and Progress. After councillor Nicanor was fielded as a parliamentary candidate in the 2019 Namibian general election, a by-election became necessary for Keetmannshoop Urban because Namibian electoral law prohibits sitting councillors and members of the public service to run for a seat in parliament.
The by-election was conducted on 15 January 2020. Maxie Minnaar of the Landless People's Movement won with 1,958 votes, followed by Festus Shilimela and Abraham ǀGoagoseb. Minnaar died in August 2020. Considering that the next regional election was only months away, the Electoral Commission of Namibia decided to keep the councillor position vacant until then. The 2020 regional election was also won by the LPM. Its candidate Joseph Isaacks obtained 3,016 votes, well ahead of the SWAPO candidate Emrico Blaauw who came second with 1,849 votes.
General elections
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