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2015 Namibian local and regional elections

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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
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There were 121 constituency councillors to be elected. Each of them represented their constituency in the respective regional council. The regional councils in turn selected 3 representatives each to serve in the
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electoral system. Voters in each constituency elect one councillor to represent them on their regional council. Local authority councillors are elected by a system of
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Regional and local elections taken together elected 199 women out of the 499 available seats, partly because
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held elections for their local and regional councils on 27 November 2015. Ballots were cast using
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was announced as winner in October because no opposition party nominated a candidate.
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was announced as winner in October because no opposition party nominated a candidate.
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for women is required by law in local authority elections.
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are 57 local authorities to be elected. In five of them (
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Politics of Namibia

Constitution
Constituent Assembly
Executive
President
Nangolo Mbumba
Vice-President
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
Prime Minister
Saara Kuugongelwa
Cabinet
Legislature
National Council
Chairman
Bernard Sibalatani
National Assembly
Speaker
Peter Katjavivi
Judiciary
Supreme Court
Chief Justice
Peter Shivute
Administrative divisions
Regions
Constituencies
Elections
2014
2019
2024

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