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Windhoek West Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Khomas Region of Namibia. It contains the affluent suburbs of Hochland Park, Pioneers Park, Academia, Cimbebasia, Rocky Crest, Windhoek North and Windhoek West.
Contents
Windhoek West has 42,201 inhabitants (2010). Its residents have a high life expectancy, and a high rate of school attendance, and access to electricity and safe water.
Politics
The first councillor of this constituency was Henk Mudge of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA). In 2002 Sophia Shaningwa of the SWAPO Party won the seat and served for a six-year term. In 2010 Shikwetepo Haindongo (SWAPO) took over as councillor of Windhoek West. When Haindongo died in August 2014 a by-election was held in November which was won overwhelmingly by Georg Trepper of SWAPO.
Trepper was reelected in the 2015 regional election with 3,781 of the 5,477 votes, followed by Sophia Panizza (DTA, 1,175 votes) and Maureen Dunn of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) with 521 votes.