Siyancuma Local Municipality is a local municipality in the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality district of the

Northern Cape The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi ...

province of

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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. Seven councillors are elected by

first-past-the-post voting In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...

in seven wards, while the remaining six are 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 ...

s so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 no party obtained a majority of seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

External links

Official website
Local municipalities of the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality {{NorthernCape-geo-stub