Gariep Local Municipality is a defunct local municipality in

Joe Gqabi District Municipality The Joe Gqabi District Municipality (; ) is one of the seven districts of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The seat is Barkly East. As of 2011, the majority of its 349,768 inhabitants spoke isiXhosa. Before 1 February 2010, it was ...

Eastern Cape The Eastern Cape ( ; ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, and its largest city is Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth). Due to its climate and nineteenth-century towns, it is a common location for tourists. It is also kno ...

. The municipality was merged with Maletswai Local Municipality immediately after the August 2016 Local Municipal Elections to form the new

Walter Sisulu Local Municipality Walter Sisulu Municipality (; ; ) is a local municipality within the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The municipality was formed by merging the Maletswai and Gariep local municipalities immediatel ...

Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consisted of ten members elected by

mixed-member proportional representation Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a type of representation provided by some mixed electoral system, mixed electoral systems which combine local Winner-take-all system, winner-take-all elections with a Compensation (el ...

. Five councillors were elected by

first-past-the-post voting First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first- ...

in five wards, while the remaining five were 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 c ...

s so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 18 May 2011 the

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(ANC) won a majority of seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20120914054225/http://www.gariep.gov.za/ Former local municipalities of South Africa {{EasternCape-geo-stub