Tswelopele Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Lejweleputswa District of the Free State in

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. The name is a

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word meaning "progress".

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of fifteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Eight 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 eight wards, while the remaining seven are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the

2021 South African municipal elections The 2021 South African municipal elections were held on 1 November 2021, to elect councils for all district, metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country's nine provinces. It is the sixth municipal election held in South Afric ...

the

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(ANC) won a reduced majority of ten seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

References

External links

* http://www.tswelopele.gov.za/ {{coord, 28, 17, 27, S, 26, 09, 00, E, region:ZA_type:adm3rd_source:kolossus-itwiki, display=title Local municipalities of the Lejweleputswa District Municipality