Editing Grootfontein (section)

==Politics==
Grootfontein is governed by a municipal council that has seven seats.<ref>{{Cite news | title=Know Your Local Authority | publisher=Institute for Public Policy Research | newspaper=Election Watch | year = 2015 | issue=3 | page=4}}</ref>

The [[Namibian local and regional elections, 2015|2015 local authority election]] was won by Namibia's ruling [[SWAPO]] party which gained five seats and 2,019 votes. One seat each went to the [[Democratic Turnhalle Alliance]] (DTA, 546 votes) and to the [[All People's Party (Namibia)|All People's Party]] (APP, 154 votes).<ref>{{cite web | title=Local elections results | publisher=[[Electoral Commission of Namibia]] | page=6 | url=http://www.ecn.na/documents/27857/218731/LA+results+%28press+release%29+2015.pdf/870a030b-8547-487f-ad18-b22713b16d4c?version=1.0 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210194328/http://www.ecn.na/documents/27857/218731/LA+results+%28press+release%29+2015.pdf/870a030b-8547-487f-ad18-b22713b16d4c?version=1.0 | url-status=dead | archive-date=10 December 2015 | date=28 November 2015 }}</ref> SWAPO also won the [[2020 Namibian local and regional elections|2020 local authority election]], obtaining 1,727 votes and gaining four seats. The [[Independent Patriots for Change]] (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, obtained 653 votes and gained two seats. The remaining seat went to the [[Popular Democratic Movement]] (PDM, the new name of the DTA) with 309 votes.<ref>{{Cite web | title=2020 Local Authority Elections Results and Allocation of Seats | page=15 | date=29 November 2020 | publisher=[[Electoral Commission of Namibia]] | url=https://www.ecn.na/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Media-Release-on-LA-Results_2020.pdf | access-date=4 March 2021 | archive-date=24 January 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124162938/https://www.ecn.na/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Media-Release-on-LA-Results_2020.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>