Editing Hardap Region (section)

==Politics==
[[File:Wahlkreise in Hardap (2014).svg|thumb|360px|right|Hardap constituencies (2014)]]

As of 2020, Hardap had 52,534 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=19 March 2021 | archive-date=12 June 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612210020/https://elections.na/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>  The region comprises eight [[Constituencies of Namibia|electoral constituencies]]:
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* [[Gibeon Constituency|Gibeon]]
* [[Mariental Rural]]
* [[Mariental Urban]]
* [[Rehoboth Rural]]
* [[Rehoboth Urban East]]
* [[Rehoboth Urban West]]
* [[Aranos Constituency|Aranos]] (created in 2013)
* [[Daweb Constituency|Daweb]] (created in 2013)
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As in all other regions, [[SWAPO]] was by far the strongest political party since [[Independence of Namibia|Namibian independence]]. In February 2009, then-governor Hanse-Himarwa was condemned by the [[National Society for Human Rights]] of Namibia for declaring Hardap Region "SWAPO territory" and urging supporters not to allow other political parties to "invade" the region.<ref>{{Cite web|date=22 February 2009|title=Hardap Governor Incites Violence|publisher=NamRights (National Society for Human Rights (Namibia))|location=Windhoek, Namibia|url=http://www.nshr.org.na/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=1059|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722234402/http://www.nshr.org.na/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=1059|archive-date=22 July 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=9 November 2009}}</ref> 

===Presidential elections===
In the [[2004 Namibian general election|2004 presidential election]], the region supported [[Hifikepunye Pohamba]] of [[SWAPO]] with a narrow absolute majority of the votes (52%), following by [[Ben Ulenga]] of [[Congress of Democrats]] (21%) and [[Katuutire Kaura]] of the [[Democratic Turnhalle Alliance]] (16%). Four other candidates combined for the 11%.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hardap Region 2004 President results|publisher=Election Watch Namibia|url=http://www.electionwatch.org.na/node/40?q=fullpresresults2004&region=Hardap|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722234224/http://www.electionwatch.org.na/node/40?q=fullpresresults2004&region=Hardap|archive-date=22 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Regional elections===
In the [[2004 Namibian local and regional elections|2004 regional election]] for the [[National Assembly of Namibia]], SWAPO won all six constituencies.<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}}</ref>

In the [[Namibian local and regional elections, 2015|2015 regional elections]] SWAPO obtained 65% of the total votes ([[2010 Namibian local and regional elections|2010]]: 60%)<ref name=election2020/> and won seven of the eight constituencies with only Rehoboth Urban West narrowly won by the opposition.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Regional Council Election Results 2015 | publisher=[[Electoral Commission of Namibia]] | date=3 December 2015 | pages=2–3 | 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 | access-date=21 December 2015 | archive-url=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 | archive-date=8 December 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref><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=archive-read&id=144849}}</ref> In the [[2020 Namibian local and regional elections|2020 regional election]] the [[Landless People's Movement (Namibia)|Landless People's Movement]] (LPM, an opposition party formed in 2016) was the strongest party. It obtained 45% of votes overall and won seven of the eight constituencies.<ref name=election2020/>

===Governors===
* [[Katrina Hanse-Himarwa]] (2004–2015)<ref>{{Cite web | title=Hanse-Himarwa, Katrina |publisher=[[Government of Namibia]] | url=http://www.parliament.na/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=979:hanse-himarwa-katrina&catid=89&Itemid=1474 | access-date=2 February 2016}}</ref> 
* [[Esme Sophia Isaack]] (2015–2020)<ref name=Governor>{{Cite news | title=President announces governors | newspaper=[[The Namibian]] | date=10 April 2015 | url=http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=25471 | access-date=14 April 2015 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20150414075438/http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=25471 | archive-date=14 April 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Salomon April]] (2020–present)<ref name=Goodbye/>