Lekwa-Teemane Local Municipality is a local municipality in Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. The Seat of local municipality is Christiana.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of fourteen 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 are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seven

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, while the remaining seven 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) lost their outright majority on the council. The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

References

External links

Official site
Local municipalities of the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality {{NorthWestZA-geo-stub