Ndlambe Local Municipality is an administrative area in the
Sarah Baartman District of the
Eastern Cape in
South Africa
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, with its capital at
Port Alfred
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. It is a predominantly rural area with agriculture and tourism dominating the economy.
It encompasses the following towns:
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Kenton-on-Sea
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Boknes
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Bathurst
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Boesmansriviermond
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Alexandria
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Cannon Rocks
Politics
The municipal council consists of twenty members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Ten 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 ten
wards, while the remaining ten 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
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(ANC) won a majority of eleven seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
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References
External links
Official website
{{Municipalities of the Eastern Cape
Local municipalities of the Sarah Baartman District Municipality