The

Kannaland Local Municipality Kannaland Municipality ( af, Kannaland Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality located within the Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The municipal area is situated in the western part of the Little Kar ...

council consists of seven members elected by

mixed-member proportional representation Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a mixed electoral system in which votes cast are considered in local elections and also to determine overall party vote tallies, which are used to allocate additional members to produce ...

. Four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in four

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, while the remaining three are chosen from

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s so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.

Results

The following table shows the composition of the council after past elections.

December 2000 election

The following table shows the results of the 2000 election.

October 2002 floor crossing

In terms of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution and the judgment of the Constitutional Court in '' United Democratic Movement v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others'', in the period from 8–22 October 2002 councillors had the opportunity to cross the floor to a different political party without losing their seats. In the Kannaland council, three councillors from the Democratic Alliance (DA) crossed the floor: one to the New National Party (NNP) which had formerly been part of the DA, one to the African National Congress (ANC), and one to sit as an independent. The single councillor from the Pan Africanist Congress also crossed to the ANC.

September 2004 floor crossing

Another floor-crossing period occurred on 1–15 September 2004, in which the single NNP councillor crossed to the ANC.

March 2006 election

The following table shows the results of the 2006 election.

September 2007 floor crossing

The final floor-crossing period occurred on 1–15 September 2007; floor-crossing was subsequently abolished in 2008 by the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution. In the Kannaland council, three councillors from the ANC and two from the Independent Civic Organisation crossed to the newly-formed National People's Party.

By-elections from September 2007 to May 2011

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period between the floor crossing period in September 2007 and the election in May 2011.

May 2011 election

The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.

August 2016 election

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election. The local council sends one representative to the council of the Garden Route District Municipality. that councillor is a representative of the DA.

November 2021 election

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

Notes

References

{{Municipal elections in the Western Cape

Kannaland Kannaland Municipality ( af, Kannaland Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality located within the Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The municipal area is situated in the western part of the Little Ka ...

Elections in the Western Cape Garden Route District Municipality