Letsemeng Municipality (; ; ) is a
local municipality within the
Xhariep District Municipality, in the
Free State province of
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
.
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
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 ...
. Seven 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 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 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 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