Gibeon Constituency

Gibeon (Nama: Khaxa-tsûs) is a constituency in the Hardap Region of Namibia. In the 2009 presidential election, 3669 people voted. The administrative centre of the constituency is the village of Gibeon. It had a population of 12,122 in 2011, up from 11,541 in 2001.[1]

Gibeon Constituency (yellow) in the Hardap Region (dark grey)

Politics

The 2015 regional elections were won by Jeremias van Neel of Swapo with 1,255 votes. Niklaas Jacobus Dawson of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) came second with 206 votes, followed by Geoffrey Keramen of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) with 122 votes.[2]

References
  1. "Hardap 2011 Census Regional Profile" (PDF). Statistics Namibia. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  2. "Regional Council Election Results 2015". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 3 December 2015. p. 4. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015.


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