Rehoboth Urban West

Rehoboth Urban West is an electoral constituency in the Hardap region of Namibia, comprising the suburbs of Rehoboth that are situated to the west of the national road B1, covering an area of. It had a population of 11,197 in 2011, up from 9,238 in 2001. the constituency had 8,324 registered voters.

Politics

Rehoboth was traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization party. In the 2004 regional election, SWAPO candidate Theo Diergaardt received 1,261 of the 2,468 votes cast and became councillor.
The 2015 regional elections were won by Laurena Wilhelmina Christ of the United People's Movement with 1,975 votes. No other constituency in Hardap Region was won by an opposition candidate. Diergaardt, the sitting councillor and then-deputy minister of Lands and Resettlement of the ruling SWAPO party came second with 1,479 votes, followed by Marthinus Christiaan Kotze of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance.
The 2020 regional election were won by Harald Kambrude of the Landless People's Movement. He obtained 1,237 votes. Francis Huish of the Popular Democratic Movement came second with 766 votes, followed by Karl Manfred Draghoender. The sitting councillor Christ ran as an independent candidate in 2020 but only obtained 94 votes.