uMdoni Local Municipality is an administrative area in the
Ugu District of
KwaZulu-Natal
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in
South Africa
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. Umdoni is an
isiZulu
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name for the indigenous tree,
Mdoni (''Syzgium gerrardi'').
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-seven members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation
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. Nineteen councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting
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in nineteen
wards
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Division or unit
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, while the remaining eighteen are chosen from
party list
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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 the
African National Congress
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(ANC) won a majority of seventeen seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
By-elections from November 2021
The following
by-elections
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were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period since November 2021.
After the by-election, the council was reconfigured as below:
References
External links
* http://www.umdoni.gov.za/
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KwaZulu-Natal South Coast
Local municipalities of the Ugu District Municipality