Magareng Local Municipality is an administrative area in the
Frances Baard District of the
Northern Cape in
South Africa
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.
Magareng is a
Setswana
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name meaning "in the middle". The name reflects the geographic location of the municipality in relation to other areas.
Main places
The
2011 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of eleven members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Six 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 six
wards, while the remaining five 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 1 November 2021 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 six seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
{{Municipalities of the Northern Cape
Local municipalities of the Frances Baard District Municipality