{{Short description|Electoral constituency in Namibia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} [[File:Wahlkreis Rehoboth-Stadt (West) (2014).svg|thumb|300px| Rehoboth Urban West constituency (red) in the Hardap Region]]

'''Rehoboth Urban West''' is an electoral [[Constituencies of Namibia|constituency]] in the [[Hardap Region|Hardap]] region of [[Namibia]], comprising the suburbs of [[Rehoboth, Namibia|Rehoboth]] that are situated to the west of the national road [[B1 road (Namibia)|B1]], covering an area of {{Convert|325|sqkm|abbr=on}}. It had a population of 11,197 in 2011, up from 9,238 in 2001.<ref name=regHardap>{{cite web | title=Chapter 2: Population Structure, Composition and Density | url=https://cms.my.na/assets/documents/p19dptss1r1r03g0a1f641hmn15ddh.pdf | work=2011 Population and Housing Census - Hardap Regional Profile | publisher=[[Namibia Statistics Agency]] | access-date=16 November 2024 | page=4}}</ref> {{As of|2020}} the constituency had 8,324 registered voters.<ref name=election2020>{{Cite web | title=Regional Council 2020 Election Results | publisher=[[Electoral Commission of Namibia]] | date=18 January 2021 | series=''Interactive map'' | url=http://elections.na | accessdate=31 March 2021}}</ref>

==Politics== Rehoboth was traditionally a stronghold of the [[South West Africa People's Organization]] (SWAPO) party. In the [[2004 Namibian local and regional elections|2004 regional election]], SWAPO candidate [[Theo Diergaardt]] received 1,261 of the 2,468 votes cast and became councillor.<ref>{{Cite news | title=Electoral Act, 1992: Notification of Result of General Election for Regional Councils | newspaper=Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia | issue=3366 | page=15 | publisher=[[Government of Namibia]] | date=3 January 2005 | url=http://www.lac.org.na/laws/2005/3366.pdf | format=pdf}}</ref>

The [[Namibian local and regional elections, 2015|2015 regional elections]] were won by Laurena Wilhelmina Christ of the [[United People's Movement (Namibia)|United People's Movement]] (UPM) with 1,975 votes. No other constituency in Hardap Region was won by an opposition candidate.<ref>{{Cite news | title=Mixed results for opposition in regional polls | last=Menges | first=Werner | newspaper=[[The Namibian]] | date=29 November 2015 | url=http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?page=read&id=34606}}</ref> Diergaardt, the sitting councillor and then-deputy [[Ministry of Land Reform (Namibia)|minister of Lands and Resettlement]]<ref name="MLR">{{cite web |url=http://209.88.21.36/opencms/opencms/grnnet/MLRR/Deputy-Minister/ |title=Hon. Theo Diergaardt - Short biography |publisher=[[Government of Namibia]], Ministry of Lands and Resettlement |accessdate=13 December 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> of the ruling SWAPO party came second with 1,479 votes, followed by Marthinus Christiaan Kotze of the [[Democratic Turnhalle Alliance]] (DTA, 159 votes).<ref>{{Cite web | title=Regional Council Election Results 2015 | publisher=[[Electoral Commission of Namibia]] | date=3 December 2015 | page=5 | url=http://www.ecn.na/documents/27857/223442/Regional+Counils+Election+Results_Duly+elected+candidates+2015.pdf/32493774-80b3-4be3-9ca1-1f6ce187673a?version=1.0 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208163948/http://www.ecn.na/documents/27857/223442/Regional+Counils+Election+Results_Duly+elected+candidates+2015.pdf/32493774-80b3-4be3-9ca1-1f6ce187673a?version=1.0 | archivedate=8 December 2015 }}</ref>

The [[2020 Namibian local and regional elections|2020 regional election]] were won by Harald Kambrude of the [[Landless People's Movement (Namibia)|Landless People's Movement]] (LPM, a new party registered in 2018). He obtained 1,237 votes. Francis Huish of the [[Popular Democratic Movement]] (PDM, the new name of the DTA) came second with 766 votes, followed by Karl Manfred Draghoender (SWAPO, 706 votes). The sitting councillor Christ ran as an [[independent candidate]] in 2020 but only obtained 94 votes.<ref name=GG7654>{{Cite news | title=Publication of results and particulars in respect of general elections for Regional Councils: Electoral Act, 2014 | newspaper=Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia | issue=7654 | page=6 | publisher=[[Government of Namibia]] | date=8 October 2021 | url=http://www.lac.org.na/laws/2021/7654.pdf | format=pdf}}</ref>

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