Pohamba has been in power since Namibia achieved independence from South Africa in 1990 [AFP]
South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) won 75.27 per cent of the vote and returned President Hifikepunye Pohamba for the second term in office after securing 76.4 per cent of the presidential vote, according to official results released on Friday.
Namibia's ruling party has won the majority of votes in the country's parliamentary polls, final results have shown.
The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), the ruling party's nearest rival, won 11.31 per cent of the vote.
The vote, which consisted of 107 contested constituencies, resulted from a final count of 811,143 votes, revealing a 54-seat win for SWAPO out of 72 possible seats in the National Assembly, just one less than its previous victory in 2005.
The RDP, which broke away from the ruling party in 2007, took eight seats.
Election results rejected
Earlier on Friday, the RDP and seven other opposition parties rejected the results of the elections and said they would file a court challenge.
The parties instructed their legal teams to institute proceedings against the Electoral Commission of Namibia "for contravening the electoral law of the country," they said.
While African observers of the elections have pronounced them free and fair, opposition parties also complained about not being adequately informed about the vote verification process.
Hifikepunye Pohamba, Namibia's re-elected president, has been in power since 2005 but his SWAPO party has maintained a majority of seats in parliament since the country received its independence from South Africa in 1990.
Namibia has enjoyed political stability and economic growth, but is struggling in the face of rising poverty, unemployment and widening cracks in its once highly regarded health care and school systems, further exacerbated by the global recession.
Final results from Namibian presidential and parliamentary elections have indicated that the incumbent president, Hifikepunye Pohamba, has been reelected by a large margin. The ruling party, South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO), also retained a majority in the parliamentary elections.

File photograph of Hifikepunye Pohamba Pohamba won 76.4% of the vote in the presidential ballots; meanwhile, SWAPO obtained 75.27% in the parliamentary polls. The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) party came in a distant second at 11.31%. SWAPO won 54 out of 72 seats in the National Assembly. The RDP took eight seats.

"I am a happy man. I, on behalf of SWAPO accept the election. I am grateful to the Namibian people who once again trusted me," Pohama commented after his reelection.

Eight of the thirteen parties competing with SWAPO said that they rejected the results of the polls, and would challenge them in court "for contravening the electoral law of the country." They claimed that they hadn't been properly informed about the process of vote verification, and that the speed at which the votes were counted was too slow.

A joint statement released by the parties said that "our eight parties will not accept the election results as the elections were conducted in contravention of the law. Accepting this supposed elections outcome will be tantamount to undermining democracy in Namibia."

African election observers, however, deemed the Namibian elections free and fair.