It covers an area of 48,271 km2 (18,638 sq mi) and contains the major town of Lüderitz, after which the constituency was originally named.
[2] ǃNamiǂNûs Constituency is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party.
[3] In the 2010 regional elections, Jan Albertus Scholtz (SWAPO) won the constituency with 3,526 votes.
Fritz Dausab of the Landless People's Movement (LPM, a new party registered in 2018) came third with 567 votes, independent candidates Reginald Paul Hercules and Michaeleno Kadhikwa got 322 and 121 votes respectively, and Gideon Kondjeni Kalenga of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) obtained 228.
It is a term of the Khoekhoe language of the ǃAman, a subtribe of the Nama people, the inhabitants of the area before German colonialisation.