Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality

Inkosi Langalibalele
Inkosi Langalibalele
	Local municipality
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	uThukela
Seat	Estcourt
Government
• Type	Municipal council
Area [1]
• Total	3,399 km2 (1,312 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	196,226
• Density	58/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	KZN237

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

Politics

The municipal council consisted of forty-six members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three councillors were elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-three 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 3 August 2016 no party obtained a majority. The African National Congress (ANC) and Al Jama-ah formed a coalition to govern the majority. The following table shows the results of the election.[3][4]

Party		Votes				Seats
Party		Ward	List	Total	%	Ward	List	Total
	African National Congress	30,479	31,079	61,558	49.5	12	11	23
	Inkatha Freedom Party	24,720	24,709	49,429	39.7	11	7	18
	Democratic Alliance	2,589	2,590	5,179	4.2	0	2	2
	Al Jama-ah	2,174	2,069	4,243	3.4	0	2	2
	Economic Freedom Fighters	992	1,026	2,018	1.6	0	1	1
	Peoples Revolutionary Movement	344	439	783	0.6	0	0	0
	Independent	758	–	758	0.6	0	–	0
	Pan Africanist Congress	68	154	222	0.2	0	0	0
	African Mantungwa Community	20	167	187	0.2	0	0	0
	Congress of the People	43	–	43	0.0	0	–	0
Total		62,187	62,233	124,420	100.0	23	23	46
Spoilt votes		1,236	1,275	2,511

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References

Sum of the statistics from Census 2011 for Imbabazane, uMtshezi.
"The Local Government Handbook". Retrieved 6 August 2016.
"Results Summary – All Ballots: Estcourt/Loskop" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
"Seat Calculation Detail: Estcourt/Loskop" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 6 January 2017.

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[census-1] Sum of the statistics from Census 2011 for Imbabazane, uMtshezi.

[lgovhbook-2] "The Local Government Handbook". Retrieved 6 August 2016.

[3] "Results Summary – All Ballots: Estcourt/Loskop" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 6 January 2017.

[4] "Seat Calculation Detail: Estcourt/Loskop" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 6 January 2017.