Okongo Constituency

Okongo is a constituency in the Ohangwena Region of Namibia, on the border to Angola.

[3] As is common in all constituencies of former Owamboland, Namibia's ruling SWAPO Party has dominated elections since independence.

In the 2004 regional election SWAPO candidate Paulus Mwahanyekange received 6,679 of the 6,709 votes cast.

Its candidate Fanuel Ndadi gathered 5,766 votes, while the only opposition candidate, Waldeheim Kanalelo of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), received 241 votes.

Efraim Lebeus received 5,072 votes, far ahead of Tobias Shingo of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, who obtained 469 votes.

Okongo constituency (red) in the Ohangwena Region of Namibia