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" SWAPO's Hage Geingob is widely expected to win a second term in office."

I would recommend to show a bit more balance view, as many sources speak about a tight race, e.g. [1] [2] , especially based on the special voting day (e.g. [3] and the lack of independent opinion polls) --Chtrede (talk) 11:00, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Rather than this being stated in the text in Wikipedia's voice, there should be a table of opinion polls. Number 5 7 13:05, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

see before: No opinion polls in Namibia --Chtrede (talk) 14:17, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have yet to find one source (or one person on the ground) that would not be surprised if Geingob lost today, and I think that's what "widely expected to win" means. Even the often repeated "neck-on-neck" statement about the special vote needs to be seen in context, it was a win in five constituencies. Now I'm not sure if every constituency provided the opportunity to vote early but it was for sure more than five or ten.

I'm all in for a statement that these elections are contested, as opposed to all other elections since 1989. I wasn't sure about the wording, that's why it is not there yet. Cheers, Pgallert (talk) 06:01, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"I have yet to find one source (or one person on the ground) that would not be surprised if Geingob lost today," Try Reuters ([4]) or The Namibian ([5]). --Chtrede (talk) 15:10, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Neither source says that Geingob might not win. After all, his last result was 87% of the vote. "Unexpectedly tough" (Reuters, emphasis mine) and "could reduce Geingob's vote share" (Namibian) are not exactly confident expressions of him losing his seat. Cheers, Pgallert (talk) 08:44, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Two pages

Shouldn't there be separate pages for the presidential and general election? They are two separate elections that happen to be held on the same day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.239.220.249 (talk) 07:50, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No blank or invalid vote?

There were seriously not even a single blank or invalid vote out of hundreds of thousands of voters? Isn't that just preliminary results? --Aréat (talk) 23:44, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Aréat: I assume because of the electronic voting, invalid votes are impossible? Number 5 7 08:32, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]