Editing Dâures Constituency (section)

==Politics==
Dâures has been a [[United Democratic Front (Namibia)|United Democratic Front]] (UDF) dominated constituency since its establishment in 1992. In the [[2004 Namibian local and regional elections|2004 regional election]] UDF politician [[Apius Auchab]] received 1,882 of the 3,445 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=12 | publisher=[[Government of Namibia]] | date=3 January 2005 | url=http://www.lac.org.na/laws/2005/3366.pdf | format=pdf}}</ref> Only in the [[Namibian local and regional elections, 2010|2010 regional elections]], the [[South West Africa People's Organization]] (SWAPO) took the lead for the first time with Ernst Katjiku getting 1,394 votes, 23 more votes than Auchab of the UDF (1,371 votes).<ref name="ne2"/> Fredrika Gertze of the [[National Unity Democratic Organisation]] received 207 votes and Seth Angalie Manga of the [[Rally for Democracy and Progress (Namibia)|Rally for Democracy and Progress]] received 195 votes.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ecn.na/results/2010/Press_Release_Constituency%5B1%5D%20-%20Erongo%20-%20Daures.pdf |title=Election results from Electoral Commission of Namibia |access-date=2 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717175842/http://www.ecn.na/results/2010/Press_Release_Constituency%5B1%5D%20-%20Erongo%20-%20Daures.pdf |archive-date=17 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the [[Namibian local and regional elections, 2015|2015 regional elections]] the constituency went back to the UDF with Joram Kennedy ǃHaoseb winning 1589 votes against Katjiku's 1390.<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.newera.com.na/2015/11/28/udf-upsets-swapo-daures/
|title=UDF upsets Swapo in Daures
|date=30 November 2015
|newspaper=[[New Era (Namibia)|New Era]]}}</ref> I was the only constituency won by the UDF in these elections.<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> ǃHaoseb was reelected in the [[2020 Namibian local and regional elections|2020 regional election]], winning the constituency with 1,448 votes. SWAPO was again runner-up, its candidate Theresia Inecia Brandt received 1,147 votes. In third place was Abiud Uaja Karongee, an [[independent candidate]]. He obtained 481 votes.<ref name=election2020/>