KwaDukuza Local Municipality
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KwaDukuza Local Municipality is one of four municipalities under iLembe District Municipality,
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Main places

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


Politics

The municipal council consists of fifty-nine 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 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 thirty wards, while the remaining twenty-nine 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 election of 1 November 2021 the
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(ANC) lost its majority, obtaining a plurality of twenty-nine seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.


See also

* List of South African municipalities


References


External links


Official website
Local municipalities of the iLembe District Municipality KwaDukuza Local Municipality {{KwaZuluNatal-geo-stub