RUNDU - The ruling SWAPO Party Candidate Rosa Kunyanda Kavara overwhelmingly won the Rundu Rural West Constituency by-election that took place yesterday Friday. According to results issued by the Electoral Commission (ECN) after voting ended in the early hours of Saturday morning, Kavara secured 2 614 votes, while the Republikein Party (RP) candidate came second with 377 votes. The DTA got 354, CoD 259, while NUDO got 26. Namibia Democratic Movement for Change (NDMC), which did not formally withdraw from the election, managed to get 27 votes.

After counting ended, it was discovered that one ballot paper had gone missing and the CoD and DTA insisted that the ECN should find that ballot paper or else they would not accept the result. The remaining three Political Parties however agreed that the Electoral Commission go ahead with the ruling which was then endorsed.

A total of 14 300 voters were registered for the election in the Constituency while 3 719 (representing a quarter of the voters) cast their votes in the by-election.

The by-election Returning Officer Thomas Shapi described the election as having been 'free and fair'.
“The election was free and fair, despite that missing ballot paper, there was no intimidation or whatsoever,” said Shapi.

The SWAPO Party candidate Rosa Kunyanda Kavara will now serve as a Councillor for Rundu Rural West Constituency replacing Herbert Shixwameni who resigned in October last year.
(NAMPA)

Congratulations have to go to SWAPO for winning the seat! The people have spoken. This is a victory for SWAPO and for Namibia. May we and our parties continue to conduct ourselves in such a mature and democratic fashion. There is always room for improvement, sure, but elections in Namibia are in most part civil, mature and democratic excercises in voter rights.

Hear, hear! We are in agreement.

"Congratulations have to go to SWAPO for winning the seat! The people have spoken. This is a victory for SWAPO and for Namibia. May we and our parties continue to conduct ourselves in such a mature and democratic fashion. There is always room for improvement, sure, but elections in Namibia are in most part civil, mature and democratic excercises in voter rights."

please for gods sake reread ur statement and tell us what do u mean by " There is always room for improvement, sure, but elections in Namibia are in most part civil, mature and democratic excercises in voter rights"

if u can take the statistics for the election tell me how many young people voted and how many old people?
for sure u will find that old people who know nothing about the election are the one higher. this is ur homework for now why soo?

Unless "My vote is my secret" has changed (and I don't think it has!), there is NO way anybody can provide the statistics you speak of .......