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Namibia held elections for their local and regional councils on 27 November 2015.[1] Ballots were cast usingelectronic voting.[2]
Elections to regional councils are held using thefirst-past-the-post electoral system. Voters in each constituency elect one councillor to represent them on their regional council. Local authority councillors are elected by a system ofproportional representation.[3]
Regional and local elections taken together elected 199 women out of the 499 available seats,[4] partly becauseaffirmative action for women is required by law in local authority elections.[3]
There were 121 constituency councillors to be elected. Each of them represented their constituency in the respective regional council.[3] The regional councils in turn selected 3 representatives each to serve in theNational Council.
In twenty-eight constituenciesSWAPO was announced as winner in October because no opposition party nominated a candidate.[1][5]
Local elections determine the population of the village, town, and city councils and have a direct influence on who will become mayor, as this position is elected among all councillors. Contrary to the regional elections, local elections in Namibia are determined by party, not by individual. There are 57 local authorities to be elected. In five of them (Okahao,Omuthiyagwiipundi,Oniipa,Outapi andTsandi)SWAPO was announced as winner in October because no opposition party nominated a candidate.[1][6]
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