More polling results from abroad

MORE preliminary results of votes cast by Namibians abroad on Friday have been obtained with these results now almost complete.
Votes from two towns in Zimbabwe are still outstanding.

Swapo won the majority of the votes in most missions abroad.The 10 voters at the Namibian diplomatic mission at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia gave the ruling Swapo party eight votes for the National Assembly (NA) elections and one vote each for Swanu and MAG. In the presidential race, President Hifikepunye Pohamba of Swapo won nine votes and Henk Mudge of the Republican Party (RP) one vote.In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 116 Namibians voted in favour of the ruling party. The RDP won 18 votes, MAG four, Nudo four, DTA three and the APP, UDF and Communist Party (CP) received two votes each. President Pohamba garnered 121 votes in the presidential race, followed by Hidipo Hamutenya (RDP) with 20 votes, according to the unconfirmed results. Other presidential candidates were Chief Kuiama Riruako who won five votes, followed by Attie Beukes of the CP with three votes, Katuutire Kaura (DTA), Ignatius Shixwameni of the APP and Mudge (RP) with one vote each.Only 12 Namibians cast their votes in Luanda, Angola, and all of them went to Swapo, 11 to President Pohamba and one vote to UDF president Justus Garoeb. In the DRC a similar scenario unfolded with 11 votes cast for Swapo and one for the RDP. All 12 votes went for President Pohamba in the presidential election. This trend was replicated in Cairo, Egypt, where Swapo received 10 votes and the RDP one vote. All 11 voters cast their ballot for President Pohamba. Twenty Namibians voted in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia with 18 votes in favour of Swapo, one for the APP and one vote for the CoD. President Pohamba received 19 votes and Hidipo Hamutenya of the RDP one vote.In France results could only be obtained for two parties. Swapo won 13 votes, the RDP and Swanu one vote each. Pohamba won 14 votes and Hamutenya one vote.Only the results for Harare could be obtained from Zimbabwe for now.Swapo pocketed 40 votes and the RDP received three votes. In the presidential race, Pohamba received 30 and Hamutenya (RDP) four votes.In Lusaka, Zambia, Namibians gave 17 votes to Swapo and one vote each to the RDP and CoD and voted in the same way in the presidential elections. In Havana, Cuba, Swapo received 42 votes, the RDP two and three other parties, the DTA, Nudo and the CP one vote each. Of the presidential votes cast, 43 were in favour of President Pohamba, while two votes went to Hamutenya of RDP, Kaura (DTA) and Chief Riruako (Nudo) received one vote each.Votes in New Delhi, India, were cast in favour of Swapo, which received 16 votes, the RDP four votes and one each for the RP and CoD. President Pohamba received 19 votes and Hamutenya (RDP) four votes.In Abuja, Nigeria, all six votes went to President Pohamba, while for the National Assembly elections Swapo received four votes, the RDP one and the CP one vote each.Swapo received 15 votes from Namibians in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nudo one vote. The presidential race was between Pohamba who got 15 votes and Nudo’s president Riruako, who got one vote.Preliminary figures obtained from Beijing, China, showed that Swapo and President Pohamba received 31 votes each, while the RDP and its candidate Hamutenya received five votes each.Swapo received 17 votes in Vienna, Austria, and the RDP scored eight votes, with one vote each cast for the DTA and Nudo. In the presidential race, President Pohamba collected 20 votes, Hamutenya of RDP five votes. Kaura of DTA and Nudo’s Chief Riruako collected one vote each.Contrary to votes cast in New York, US, where Swapo was neck and neck with 24 and 22 votes each, votes in Washington, D.C. were spread among several parties. Swapo got 14 votes, the RDP four, the CoD three, Swanu two and the DTA one vote.In the presidential race, Pohamba received 16 votes, Hamutenya of RDP six, Riruako (Nudo) two votes and Ben Ulenga of CoD one vote in Washington. The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) refuses to release election results from abroad and from the seafarers at Walvis Bay, although results abroad and the two coastal towns were posted outside these polling stations after the counting and were thus put in the public domain. As a result, The Namibian could not establish if the preliminary votes cast at a mobile polling station, which shuttled between Cuba and San Diego in the US were added to the results of Havana mentioned above. According to information obtained, 33 votes cast at the mobile station went to Swapo and five to the RDP. Of the presidential votes cast, President Pohamba of Swapo obtained 37 votes and RDP’s Hamutenya received one vote. The final results of the votes cast on November 13 will only be made public by the ECN some time after the November 27 and 28 elections. brigitted@namibian.com.na