Editing Windhoek (section)

==Politics==
===Local authority elections===
Windhoek is the only self-governed settlement in Khomas Region. It is governed by a multi-party municipal council that has fifteen 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 council meets monthly; its decisions are taken collectively.

[[SWAPO]] won the [[Namibian local and regional elections, 2015|2015 local authority election]] and gained twelve seats, by having 37,533 votes. Three opposition parties gained one seat each: The [[Popular Democratic Movement]] (PDM), formerly DTA, with 4,171 votes, the [[National Unity Democratic Organisation]] (NUDO) with 1,453 votes, and the [[Rally for Democracy and Progress (Namibia)|Rally for Democracy and Progress]] (RDP) with 1,422 votes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Local elections results |publisher=[[Electoral Commission of Namibia]] |page=4 |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]] but lost the majority control over the town council. It obtained 20,250 votes and gained five seats. The [[Independent Patriots for Change]] (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, obtained 14,028 votes and gained four seats. Two seats each went to the local branch of the [[Affirmative Repositioning]] movement (8,501 votes) and the [[Landless People's Movement (Namibia)|Landless People's Movement]] (LPM, a new party registered in 2018, 7,365 votes). PDM (5,411 votes) and NUDO (1,455 votes) obtained one seat each.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2020 Local Authority Elections Results and Allocation of Seats |page=9 |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=25 January 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>

===Twin towns and sister cities===
{{See also|List_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities_in_Africa#Namibia|l1=List of twin towns and sister cities in Namibia}}
Windhoek is [[Sister city|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web |title=Mayoral Annual Report 2016 |url=http://documents.windhoekcc.org.na/Content/Documents/Mayoral%20Report%202016.pdf |website=windhoekcc.org.na |publisher=Windhoek |page=34 |date=2016 |access-date=2020-10-21 |archive-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021215212/http://documents.windhoekcc.org.na/Content/Documents/Mayoral%20Report%202016.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Twinning agreements |url=https://www.joburg.org.za/about_/Pages/About%20the%20City/About%20Joburg/Twinning-Agreements-.aspx |website=joburg.org.za |publisher=City of Johannesburg |access-date=2020-10-21 |archive-date=26 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026225338/https://www.joburg.org.za/about_/Pages/About%20the%20City/About%20Joburg/Twinning-Agreements-.aspx |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Namibia's Windhoek, Jamaica's Kingston sign twinning agreement |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/06/c_137803189.htm |website=xinhuanet.com |publisher=Xinhua |date=2019-02-06 |access-date=2020-10-21 |archive-date=13 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213005559/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/06/c_137803189.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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*{{flagicon|ETH}} [[Addis Ababa]], Ethiopia<ref>{{Cite news | title=Windhoek and Addis Ababa Sign Twinning Agreement at African Urban Forum | last=Rasmeni | first=Mandisa | newspaper=[[Namibia Economist]] | date=8 September 2024 | url=https://economist.com.na/91007/headlines/windhoek-and-addis-ababa-sign-twinning-agreement-at-african-urban-forum/}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Berlin]], Germany
*{{flagicon|CUB}} [[Havana]], Cuba
*{{flagicon|RSA}} [[Johannesburg]], South Africa
*{{flagicon|JAM}} [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]], Jamaica
*{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Nanjing]], China
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]], United States
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[San Antonio]], United States
*{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Shanghai]], China
*{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Suzhou, Jiangsu|Suzhou]], China
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Trossingen]], Germany
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