2019 Namibian general election

2019 Namibian general election

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Registered1,358,468
Presidential election
Turnout60.82%
 
Nominee Hage Geingob Panduleni Itula McHenry Venaani
Party SWAPO Independent PDM
Popular vote 464,703 242,657 43,959
Percentage 56.25% 29.37% 5.32%

President before election

Hage Geingob
SWAPO

Elected President

Hage Geingob
SWAPO

Parliamentary election

96 of the 104 seats in the National Assembly
53 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
SWAPO Hage Geingob 65.45 63 −14
PDM McHenry Venaani 16.65 16 +11
LPM Bernadus Swartbooi 4.75 4 New
NUDO Esther Muinjangue 1.96 2 0
APP Ignatius Shixwameni 1.79 2 0
UDF Apius Auchab 1.79 2 0
RP Henk Mudge 1.77 2 +1
NEFF Epafras Mukwiilongo 1.66 2 +2
RDP Mike Kavekotora 1.09 1 −2
CDV Faustus Thomas 0.71 1 +1
SWANU Tangeni Iiyambo 0.65 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Maps

General elections were held in Namibia on 27 November 2019.[1] Ballots were cast using electronic voting.[2] A total of eleven candidates ran for the presidency and fifteen political parties contested the National Assembly elections.

Hage Geingob of SWAPO was re-elected to the presidency, although his vote share was reduced from 87% in 2014 to 56%, their lowest vote share for a presidential election in the party's history.[3] SWAPO also retained their majority in the National Assembly, but lost their two-thirds supermajority.[4] SWAPO had held a two-thirds majority since the 1994 elections.[5]

  1. ^ "2019 Presidential & National Assembly Election Calendar". Electoral Commission of Namibia. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  2. ^ Iikela, Sakeus (23 September 2020). "ECN undecided on discarded EVMs". The Namibian. p. 1.
  3. ^ Melber, Henning (2020). "Namibia's parliamentary and presidential elections: the honeymoon is over". The Round Table. 109 (1): 13–22. doi:10.1080/00358533.2020.1717090. hdl:2263/73508. ISSN 0035-8533.
  4. ^ Swapo's two-thirds majority broken The Namibian, 1 December 2019
  5. ^ Melber, Henning (2023). "Explorations into middle class urbanites, social movements and political dynamics: impressions from Namibia's capital, Windhoek". Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 41 (1): 94–105. doi:10.1080/02589001.2022.2081671. hdl:2263/90676. ISSN 0258-9001.