Mukwe Constituency

Mukwe is a constituency in the Kavango East region of Namibia. It has 26.000 inhabitants, the district centre is the settlement of Mukwe.

The constituency contains the major settlements of Bagani, Kangongo and Divundu, and a number of small populated places such as Andara and Diyogha.

There is a bilateral agreement with Angola to allow mutual near-border immigration without travel documents. This applies to a maximum distance of 30 km, it is not valid for tourists.

The day after the 2009 general election, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) called for a recount of Mukwe's ballots "after several political parties expressed their unhappiness over the counting process". There were 19 polling stations in the constituency. In the certified results, incumbent President and SWAPO candidate Hifikepunye Pohamba received 6,227 votes of the 8,542 accepted votes. The closest candidates to Pohamba were Ignatius Shixwameni of the All People's Party (APP, 661 votes) and Hidipo Hamutenya of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP, 343 votes).

In the 2010 local and regional elections, SWAPO's Christian Muriki won a seat in the Kavango Regional Council with 3,774 votes over APP's Pankratius Kutenda with 783 votes. Petrus Dishara of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) finished in third place with 414 votes and RDP's Justina Ngombara finished in last place 117 votes.

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