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Windhoek East is a constituency in theKhomas Region ofNamibia. It consists of the upper-class suburbs ofWindhoek:Auasblick,Avis,Klein Windhoek,Ludwigsdorf,Luxury Hill,Olympia, andSuiderhof. It had a population of 22,712 in 2011, up from 17,674 in 2001.[1] As of 2020[update], it has 17,308 registered voters.[2]
Windhoek East is the most affluent constituency of Windhoek. Most embassies, private schools, private medical facilities, and shopping malls are located here, and the education rate of the inhabitants is high. All its roads are tarred. There is a concerning crime rate but the offenders come from other constituencies.[3]The Namibian newspaper suspects the constituency to have beengerrymandered by theSWAPO-ledgovernment; Besides the posh suburbs it contains a Police academy and Windhoek's two army bases.[4]
In the2004 regional election, SWAPO candidate Mwadina Rosalia Sibiya received 2.141 of the 4,265 votes cast and became councillor.[5] Nic Kruger, a member of theRally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), surprisingly won the constituency in the2010 local and regional elections.[4] The2015 regional election were won bySWAPO whose Ruusa Namuhuja gained 1,795 votes. Jens Schneider of the RDP came second with 1,169 votes, followed by Raymond Reginald Diergaardt of theDemocratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) with 743 votes.[6]
In the2020 regional election an opposition candidate became constituency councillor again. Kephas Brian Black of theIndependent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, won with 3,715 votes, followed by Petrus Cornelius Senekal of thePopular Democratic Movement (PDM, the new name of the DTA) with 2,511 votes. The SWAPO candidate Felix Tjozongoro came only third, gathering 1,615 votes.[7]
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