Phumelela Municipality (; ) is a
local municipality within the
Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality, in the
Free State province of
South Africa
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. ''Phumelela'' means "to succeed" in
isiZulu
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.
Main places
The
2001 census divided the municipality into the following
main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixteen 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 ...
. Eight 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 eight
wards, while the remaining eight 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
2021 South African municipal elections
The 2021 South African Municipal Elections were held on 1 November 2021, to elect councils for all district, metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country's nine provinces. It was the 6th municipal election cycle held in South Af ...
the
African National Congress
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(ANC) won a reduced majority of eleven seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
References
External links
Official website
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Local municipalities of the Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality