Guinas Constituency is an electoral constituency

Constituencies of Namibia

Each of the 13 regions in Namibia are further subdivided into electoral constituencies. The number and size of each constituency varies with the size and population of each region. There are currently 107 constituencies in Namibia...

 in the Oshikoto Region

Oshikoto Region

Oshikoto is one of the thirteen regions of Namibia. The northern part of the region is agricultural, whereas the main economic activities in the southern part are cattle rearing and mining...

 of Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

. It has 8,435 inhabitants and consists of the rural area surrounding the mining town of Tsumeb

Tsumeb

Tsumeb is a city of 15,000 inhabitants and the largest town in Oshikoto region in northern Namibia. Tsumeb is the home of the world-famous Tsumeb mine, and the "gateway to the north" of Namibia. It is the closest town to the Etosha National Park...

. Larger settlements in the Guinas constituency are Oshivelo

Oshivelo

- History :In early 2005, the first stage of the new Northern Railway was opened from Tsumeb, this section being 89km long. The next section runs to Oshikango near the Angolan border. The next section to be built may be to the iron ore mines at Cassinga....

 and Tsintsabis.

The constituency is named after Lake Guinas

Lake Guinas

Lake Guinas is the larger of only two natural lakes in Namibia. It is a sinkhole lake, created by a collapsing karst cave located 32 km north of Tsumeb near the D3043 road....

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Politics

In the Namibian general election, 2009, Hifikepunye Pohamba received approximately 77% of the votes in Guinas. Hidipo Hamutenya

Hidipo Hamutenya

Hidipo L. Hamutenya is a Namibian politician. A long-time leading member of the South West Africa People's Organization , Hamutenya was a member of the Cabinet of Namibia from independence in 1990 to 2004...

finished in second place in both Guinas with apprixmately 10% of the vote.