
Ingquza Hill Municipality (), previously known as Qaukeni Municipality, is a
local municipality within the
OR Tambo District Municipality
The OR Tambo District Municipality () is one of the seven districts of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is within the Wild Coast Region. The seat is Mthatha. As of 2011, the vast majority (94%) of its 1,364,943 inhabitants spoke is ...
, in the
Eastern Cape
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province of
South Africa
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.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-four 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 ...
. Thirty-two councillors are 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 thirty-two
wards
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, while the remaining thirty-two are chosen from
party list
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s 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
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid and has governed the country since 1994, when the 1994 South African general election, fir ...
(ANC) won a majority of forty-six seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
Official website
{{Municipalities of the Eastern Cape
Local municipalities of the OR Tambo District Municipality