Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality is a
local municipality of
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
. It was established after the
August 2016 local elections by the merging of
Fetakgomo and
Greater Tubatse local municipalities.
Politics
The municipal council consists of seventy-seven members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-nine councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
in thirty-nine
wards, while the remaining thirty-eight are chosen from
party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the
election of 3 August 2016, the
African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...
(ANC) won a majority of fifty-four seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
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Local municipalities of the Sekhukhune District Municipality