The municipal council consists of twenty one members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Eleven councillors are elected by
first-past-the-post voting in eleven
wards, while the remaining eleven are chosen from
party lists 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 (ANC) won a minority of 10 seats on the council as opposed to eleven seats won by the opposing parties. The following table shows the results of the election.
By-elections from November 2021 The following
by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period since the election in November 2021. Most of ward 11 consists of the town of
Harding, which was severely affected by the
unrest in July 2021. A new ward, it was won by Sheikh Mondli Ncane from
Al Jama-ah (AJ). An ANC coalition saw Ncane elected deputy-mayor. In June 2022, Ncane was ousted as deputy mayor, and replaced by a candidate from ANC coalition partner
Abantu Batho Congress (ABC). Ncane quit his party, standing as a candidate for the Sizwe Ummah Nation (SUN) in the by-election. The seat was won by the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), which increased its share from 6% to 53%. Ncane got 31%, while the candidate from his previous party, AJ, got 1%. ==References==