{"iso":"NA","name":"Namibia","flag":"\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\udde6","vote":"National Assembly \u00b7 seat projection","model":"seat","updated":"2024-11-27","source":"2024 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the National Assembly vote at the general election of 27 November 2024, official results as published by the Electoral Commission of Namibia. Parties below five percent are not shown.","shares":{"SWAPO":53.4,"IPC":20.2,"AR":6.6,"PDM":5.5,"LPM":5.2},"polls":[],"parties":{"SWAPO":{"name":"SWAPO","color":"#D30731"},"IPC":{"name":"Independent Patriots for Change","color":"#B06E02"},"AR":{"name":"Affirmative Repositioning","color":"#ed1b24"},"PDM":{"name":"Popular Democratic Movement","color":"#0066CC"},"LPM":{"name":"Landless People's Movement","color":"#FC7B2C"}},"seats":{"SWAPO":58,"IPC":21,"AR":7,"PDM":5,"LPM":5},"seat_meta":{"total":96,"majority":49,"method":"dhondt","threshold":0.0,"chamber":"National Assembly","note":"Real system is closed-list PR in a single nationwide district by largest remainder with no legal threshold; approximated here as one national D'Hondt pool over the 96 elected seats.","largest":"SWAPO"},"primer":{"system":"Republic with a directly elected president heading the government","head_of_state":"President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah","legislature":"Parliament, bicameral. The National Assembly has 104 members, 96 elected for five-year terms plus 8 presidential appointees.","electoral_system":"The 96 voting members are elected by closed-list proportional representation.","government_now":"SWAPO governs with a bare National Assembly majority of 51 seats, and Nandi-Ndaitwah won the presidency at the November 2024 election.","context":"Nandi-Ndaitwah is Namibia's first female president. The 2024 vote was SWAPO's weakest showing since independence in 1990, and opposition parties disputed the results after polling was extended in some areas.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"SWAPO":["SWAPO","South West Africa People's Organisation","Former liberation movement, now a centre-left/socialist party that has governed since independence in 1990; still rules but with its weakest-ever majority."],"IPC":["Independent Patriots for Change","","Opposition party founded in 2020 by Panduleni Itula; now the main opposition."],"AR":["Affirmative Repositioning","","Radical, youth- and land-focused populist movement led by Job Amupanda; in opposition."],"PDM":["Popular Democratic Movement","","Centre-right party (the former DTA) that was historically the official opposition; now a smaller opposition bloc."],"LPM":["Landless People's Movement","","Left-wing party campaigning on land reform, strongest in the south; in opposition."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"National Assembly (elected seats)","as_of":"2024 election","total":96,"seats":{"SWAPO":51,"IPC":20,"AR":6,"PDM":5,"LPM":5}},"region_winners":{"Omusati":"SWAPO","Ohangwena":"SWAPO","Oshikoto":"SWAPO","Kavango":"SWAPO","Zambezi":"SWAPO"},"region_meta":{"election":"2024 Namibian general election (27 November 2024) \u00b7 National Assembly","source":"Electoral Commission of Namibia, official results as published","note":"Partial map. Only SWAPO's undisputed far-northern and north-eastern strongholds are shaded, where SWAPO clearly led the party-list vote. The contested central, coastal and southern regions, where the Independent Patriots for Change and others ran strongest, are left unshaded pending a confirmed region-by-region breakdown."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2029-11","title":"Namibian general election","chamber":"Presidency & National Assembly","type":"expected"}}