uMhlathuze Local Municipality is an administrative area in the

King Cetshwayo District Municipality King Cetshwayo District Municipality (formerly Uthungulu District Municipality) is one of the 11 district municipalities ("districts") of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. The seat of the district is Richards Bay. The majority of its 885 944 ...

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in South Africa. The municipality is named after the

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. The municipality was enlarged at the time of the South African municipal election, 2016 when part of the disbanded

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was merged into it.

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-seven 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 ...

. Thirty-four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-four

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, while the remaining thirty-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

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the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority, winning a plurality of twenty-seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

By-elections

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period from the election in November 2021. The by-election took place after the African National Congress (ANC) representative, facing community pressure, resigned. With the victory, the Inkatha Freedom Party solidified its coalition hold on council.

References

External links

* https://www.umhlathuze.gov.za/ {{coord, 28, 45, S, 31, 54, E, region:ZA-ZN_type:adm2nd_source:kolossus-dewiki, display=title Local municipalities of the King Cetshwayo District Municipality