Namibian General Election Results 2019 Presidential Results
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Namibian General Election Results 2019 Presidential Results
Namibian General Election Dates 2019
Namibian General Election Date: 27 November 2019
General elections will be held in Namibia on 27 November 2019. The elections will be the second in Namibia to use electronic voting.
A total of ten candidates are expected to run for the presidency, whilst 16 political parties contested the National Assembly elections in 2014. Hage Geingob of the ruling SWAPO party, won the previous presidential elections with 87% of the vote in 2014. SWAPO also won the National Assembly elections, taking 80% of the vote that year.
Namibian General Election Results Live 2019
Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
Hage Geingob | SWAPO |
7970 |
40.69 |
Bernadus Swartbooi | Landless People's Movement |
3438 |
17.55 |
McHenry Venaani | Popular Democratic Movement |
3181 |
16.24 |
Panduleni Itula | Independent |
1676 |
6.04 |
Apius Auchab |
United Democratic Front | 1141 |
5.83 |
Esther Muinjangue |
National Unity Democratic Organisation | 482 |
2.46 |
Tangeni Iiyambo | SWANU |
253 |
1.29 |
Henk Mudge | Republican Party |
160 |
0.82 |
Mike Kavekotora | Rally for Democracy and Progress |
122 |
0.62 |
Ignatius Shixwameni | All People's Party |
97 |
0.5 |
Jan Mukwilongo |
Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters | 26 |
0.13 |
Invalid/blank votes |
0 |
– |
|
Total |
19586 |
100 |
|
Registered voters/turnout |
1358468 |
Namibia’s Democratic System Constitution agreed in 1990 includes:
• President with executive powers
• National Assembly – lower house
• National Council – upper house (house of review)
• 13 Regional Councils
• Local authorities (presently 48)
Democratic debates
Whether to use PR for national parliamentary elections?
• Which system is most appropriate for regional councils?
• Whether to use PR or a FPTP ward system for local authorities?
Four elections, three systems
• Presidential – Majoritarian
• National Assembly – PR with party lists
• Regional Council – First Past The Post
• Local Authority – PR with transition to ward system
Presidential elections
• Voters vote directly for the different candidates. The candidate who receives the most votes is elected, provided that candidate has a clear majority (50% plus one) of the votes.
• If no candidate is elected with a more than 50% of the votes in the first round, a subsequent election is held between the two candidates with the highest number of votes, until one candidate wins a clear majority.
• Since the President received a clear majority in all the previous elections in Namibia, a second round has never happened.
National Assembly elections
A PR system with party lists is used. Parties each present a list of up to 72 candidates to the Electoral Commission. The seats are divided among the parties proportionally. Seats are allocated by establishing the quota of votes required for one seat. The quota is calculated by dividing all the votes cast by the total number of seats in the National Assembly (72). After all the seats have been allocated using these quotas, the remaining seats are allocated to the parties with the largest remainder.
The Electoral system of Namibia
The Electoral Commission of Namibia was established by the Electoral Act 24 of 1992 (Electoral Act, 1992, 3-12). The amendment of 1998 was particularly important since it took significant steps to secure the independence of the ECN from the Executive, for the appointment of the ECN is no longer the simple prerogative of the President. Moreover, the Director of Elections was firmly subordinated to the ECN
Namibian past election results
Party |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
SWAPO |
715,026 |
80.01 |
77 |
Democratic Turnhalle Alliance |
42,933 |
4.8 |
5 |
Rally for Democracy and Progress |
31,372 |
3.51 |
3 |
All People's Party |
20,431 |
2.29 |
2 |
United Democratic Front |
18,945 |
2.12 |
2 |
National Unity Democratic Organisation |
17,942 |
2.01 |
2 |
Workers Revolutionary Party |
13,328 |
1.49 |
2 |
SWANU |
6,354 |
0.71 |
1 |
United People's Movement |
6,353 |
0.71 |
1 |
Republican Party |
6,099 |
0.68 |
1 |
Congress of Democrats |
3,404 |
0.38 |
0 |
Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters |
3,259 |
0.36 |
0 |
Monitor Action Group |
3,073 |
0.34 |
0 |
Christian Democratic Voice |
2,606 |
0.29 |
0 |
National Democratic Party |
1,389 |
0.16 |
0 |
Democratic Party of Namibia |
1,131 |
0.13 |
0 |
Total |
893,643 |
100 |
96 |
Registered voters/turnout |
1,241,194 |
72 |
– |