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In South Africa,
wards are geopolitical subdivisions of
municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
used for electoral purposes. Each
metropolitan and
local municipality is delimited by the
Municipal Demarcation Board
The Municipal Demarcation Board is an independent authority responsible for delimiting the boundaries of South African districts and municipalities and the boundaries of the electoral wards within those municipalities.
General
The Board was en ...
into half as many wards as there are seats on the municipal council (rounding up if there are an odd number of seats). Each ward then elects one councillor directly, and the remaining councillors are elected 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 overall party representation is proportional to the proportion of votes received by each party.
After the
2021 municipal elections, there are 4,468 wards in South Africa.
References
External links
Municipal Demarcation Board
Subdivisions of South Africa
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