Uuvudhiya Constituency is an electoral constituency

Constituencies of Namibia

Each of the 13 regions in Namibia are further subdivided into electoral constituencies. The number and size of each constituency varies with the size and population of each region. There are currently 107 constituencies in Namibia...

 in the Oshana Region of Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

. It has 4,357 inhabitants, its district capital is the settlement of Uuvudhiya

Uuvudhiya

Uuvudhiya is a populated place in the Oshana Region in northern Namibia. It is the district capital of the Uuvudhiya electoral constituency.The settlement reported a water supply problem in 2003, according to the regional councillor Amutenya Ndahafa. Juliane Zeidler of LakeNet reported that...

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Politics

The constituency had 2,869 registered voters as of 2004.

In the 2010 regional elections

Namibian local and regional elections, 2010

Namibia held elections for their local and regional councils on 26 and 27 November 2010. The terms of regional councillors and local authority representatives were originally set to expire in 2009...

, SWAPO's Seblon A.N. Paulus won the constituency with 1,621 votes. His only challenger was Gabriel SH. Jeremia of the Rally for Democracy and Progress

Rally for Democracy and Progress (Namibia)

The Rally for Democracy and Progress is an opposition political party in Namibia. It was launched on November 17 2007 under the leadership of Hidipo Hamutenya and Jesaya Nyamu, both former leading members of the ruling SWAPO party and cabinet ministers. Hamutenya had unsuccessfully sought the SWAPO...

, who received 19 votes.