Lukhanji Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape in

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. Lukhanji is a

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name for the mountain that runs from the eastern side of Queenstown to the western side. After

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on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger

Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality is a local municipality of South Africa. It was established after the August 2016 local elections by the merging of Tsolwana, Inkwanca, Lukhanji local municipalities. Politics The municipal council consists o ...

Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places
(''Note: only places with more than 1,000 inhabitants listed here''):

Politics

The municipal council consisted of fifty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-seven councillors were elected by

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in twenty-seven wards, while the remaining twenty-seven were chosen from

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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 forty-five seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

Official website
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