The

Prince Albert Local Municipality Prince Albert Municipality is a municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. History At the end of the apartheid era, the area that is today the Prince Albert Local Municipality formed part of the Central Karoo Regional Servi ...

council consists of seven members elected by

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. Four 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 their ...

in four wards, while the remaining three are chosen from

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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 obtained a majority of seats.

Results

The following table shows the composition of the council after past elections.

December 2000 election

The following table shows the results of the 2000 election.

October 2002 floor crossing

In terms of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution and the judgment of the

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in ''

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'', in the period from 8–22 October 2002 councillors had the opportunity to

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to a different political party without losing their seats. In the Prince Albert council, two councillors from the Democratic Alliance (DA) crossed to the New National Party, which had formerly been part of the DA.

March 2006 election

The following table shows the results of the 2006 election.

May 2011 election

The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.

August 2016 election

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.

November 2021 election

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

By-elections from November 2021

The following

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s were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period from the election in November 2021. The by-election took place after the

Karoo Gemeenskap Party The Karoo Gemeenskap Party ( af, Gemeenskap meaning "community") was formed in 2010 and is a small South African regional political party, active in parts of the Karoo. In the 2011 municipal election, the KGP contested and won three out of seve ...

(KGP), in a coalition with the

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(ANC) and Patriotic Alliance (PA), expelled its ward councillor and mayor Margy Jaftha for supporting the Democratic Alliance (DA) in a motion to replace the speaker and the deputy mayor with DA representatives. Jaftha subsequently stood for the DA against KGP leader Goliat Lottering, winning the seat, and earning the DA an outright majority on the council.

References

{{Municipal elections in the Western Cape Prince Albert Elections in the Western Cape Central Karoo District Municipality