It was created in August 2013, following a recommendation of the Fourth Delimitation Commission of Namibia, and in preparation of the 2014 general election.
[2] Before the administrative change in 2013 the area of this constituency, including the town of Nkurenkuru, was part of Mpungu Constituency in the Kavango Region.
[3] As in all Kavango West constituencies, SWAPO won the 2015 regional election by a landslide.
Damian Haikera Nakambare received 1,936 votes, followed by Markus Hambyuka of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP, 79 votes).
[4] For the 2020 regional election no opposition candidate was fielded,[5] and Tenga Fillipus Ndara, the SWAPO candidate, was duly elected.