Metsimaholo Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Fezile Dabi District of the Free State in

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. "Metsimaholo" means "big water" in

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Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of forty-six 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 ...

. Twenty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-three

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, while the remaining twenty-three 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, no party won a majority on the council. The

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(EFF) formed a coalition with the

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(ANC). The EFF's Selloane Motjeane was elected mayor, while Lucas Fisher of the ANC was elected Speaker and Fikile Msokweni of the ANC the Council Whip. The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

References

External links

Official website
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