Kgetlengrivier Local Municipality is a
local municipality in
Bojanala Platinum District Municipality,
North West Province,
South Africa.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Languages
The
2011 census indicated the following prevalence of languages in this municipality:
67.1% Setswana;
17.4% Afrikaans;
4.2% English;
1.4% IsiZulu;
1.3% Sesotho;
1.0% IsiXhosa;
0.9% IsiNdebele ...
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirteen 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 ...
. Seven councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting in eight
wards
Ward may refer to:
Division or unit
* Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward
* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...
, while the remaining six are chosen from
party list
An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...
s so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the
election of 1 November 2021 the
African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of seven seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
Official website
Local municipalities of the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality
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