Letsemeng Local Municipality is an administrative area in the
Xhariep District of the
Free State in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirteen members elected by
mixed-member proportional representation. Seven 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 thei ...
in seven
wards, while the remaining six are chosen from
party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the
2021 South African municipal elections the
African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...
(ANC) won a majority of nine seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.
References
External links
Official website
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Local municipalities of the Xhariep District Municipality