Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality

Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality is a local municipality of South Africa. It was established after the 2016 South African municipal elections by the merging of Imbabazane and uMtshezi local municipalities.^[2]

Inkosi Langalibalele
Local municipality
Coordinates: 28°55′44″S 29°53′20″E / 28.929°S 29.889°E / -28.929; 29.889
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	uThukela
Seat	Estcourt
Government
• Type	Municipal council
Area ^[1]
• Total	3,399 km^2 (1,312 sq mi)
Population  (2011)^[1]
• Total	196,226
• Density	58/km^2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN237

Politics

Main article: Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality elections

The municipal council consists of forty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-four councillors were elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-four wards, while the remaining twenty-three were chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received.

In the election of 1 November 2021 the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) obtained a plurality of twenty-one seats.

The following table shows the results of the election.^[3]

Party		Ward			List			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Inkatha Freedom Party	23,102	43.13	14	24,209	45.13	7	21
	African National Congress	18,490	34.52	8	19,303	35.99	9	17
	National Freedom Party	3,094	5.78	0	3,013	5.62	3	3
	Democratic Alliance	2,700	5.04	0	2,764	5.15	3	3
	Economic Freedom Fighters	2,664	4.97	1	2,737	5.10	1	2
	Independent candidates	2,036	3.80	1				1
	African People's Movement	443	0.83	0	430	0.80	0	0
	United Cultural Movement	372	0.69	0	322	0.60	0	0
	Freedom Front Plus	230	0.43	0	210	0.39	0	0
	African Mantungwa Community	82	0.15	0	200	0.37	0	0
	Al Jama-ah	122	0.23	0	128	0.24	0	0
	Abantu Batho Congress	99	0.18	0	69	0.13	0	0
	Congress of the People	34	0.06	0	133	0.25	0	0
	Black First Land First	84	0.16	0	51	0.10	0	0
	African Transformation Movement	14	0.03	0	72	0.13	0	0
Total		53,566	100.00	24	53,641	100.00	23	47
Valid votes		53,566	98.35		53,641	98.23
Invalid/blank votes		901	1.65		964	1.77
Total votes		54,467	100.00		54,605	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		98,630	55.22		98,630	55.36

References

1. Sum of the statistics from Census 2011 for Imbabazane, uMtshezi.
2. "The Local Government Handbook". Retrieved 6 August 2016.
3. "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Inkosi Langalibalele". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-20.