2019 Namibian general election

General elections were held in Namibia on 27 November 2019. Ballots were cast using electronic voting. A total of eleven candidates ran for the presidency and fifteen political parties contested the National Assembly elections.

2019 Namibian general election

27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
Registered1,358,468
Presidential election
Turnout60.82%
 
IND
PDM
Nominee Hage Geingob Panduleni Itula McHenry Venaani
Party SWAPO Independent PDM
Popular vote 464,703 242,657 43,959
Percentage 56.25% 29.37% 5.32%

President before election

Hage Geingob
SWAPO

Elected President

Hage Geingob
SWAPO

Parliamentary election

96 of the 104 seats in the National Assembly
53 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader % Seats +/โ€“
SWAPO Hage Geingob 65.45 63 โˆ’14
PDM McHenry Venaani 16.65 16 +11
LPM Bernadus Swartbooi 4.75 4 New
NUDO Esther Muinjangue 1.96 2 0
APP Ignatius Shixwameni 1.79 2 0
UDF Apius Auchab 1.79 2 0
RP Henk Mudge 1.77 2 +1
NEFF Epafras Mukwiilongo 1.66 2 +2
RDP Mike Kavekotora 1.09 1 โˆ’2
CDV Faustus Thomas 0.71 1 +1
SWANU Tangeni Iiyambo 0.65 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Maps

Hage Geingob of SWAPO was re-elected to the presidency, although his vote share was reduced from 87% in 2014 to 56%, their lowest vote share for a presidential election in the party's history. SWAPO also retained their majority in the National Assembly, but lost their two-thirds supermajority. SWAPO had held a two-thirds majority since the 1994 elections.

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