Rally for Democracy and Progress (Namibia)

Election	Candidate	Votes	%	Result
2009	Hidipo Hamutenya	88,640	10.91%	Lost N
2014		30,197	3.39%	Lost N
2019	Mike Kavekotora	3,515	0.4%	Lost N
2024		2,974	0.27%	Lost N

Election	Party leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Result
2009	Hidipo Hamutenya	90,556	11.16%	8 / 96	New	2nd	Opposition
2014		31,372	3.51%	3 / 96	5	3rd	Opposition
2019	Mike Kavekotora	8,953	1.09%	1 / 96	2	9th	Opposition
2024		3,308	0.30%	0 / 96	1	14th	Opposition

At the 2009 elections, RDP won 11% of the vote and 8 seats in the National Assembly. The party's leader and presidential candidate, Hidipo Hamutenya, won 10.91% of the vote. RDP and eight other opposition parties disputed the result and filed a case in court to have the results put aside, but the case was denied.

The eight members of the National Assembly in 2010 were: Hidipo Hamutenya, Steve Bezuidenhout, Jesaya Nyamu, Agnes Limbo, Anton von Wietersheim, Kandy Nehova, Peter Naholo and Heiko Lucks.

In March 2010, because of the disputed 2009 election, RDP decided to boycott the swearing-in ceremony of the National Assembly of Namibia. RDP decided to wait until the Supreme Court of Namibia ruled on whether to put aside the election results.^[3] It was not until 14 September 2010 that the eight RDP members of the National Assembly were sworn in.^[4]

On 8 September 2010, RDP began the process of subsuming the Republican Party led by Henk Mudge following a memorandum of understanding agreement on September 8. In the agreement, The Republican Party would begin to phase out as an independent political organization and eventually come under the umbrella of RDP. The parties said they would work together in the November 2010 regional and local elections to unseat the ruling SWAPO party.^[5]

In 2015 Jeremia Nambinga became president of the RDP. He was voted out of that position by a no-confidence vote in 2017 but challenged the result in court, and won. In August 2018 he resigned his presidency.^[6] In 2019 Mike Kavekotora was elected president and Kennedy Shekupakela vice president.^[7]

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