Umsobomvu Local Municipality
local municipality in the Northern Cape, South Africa
Umsobomvu Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala wase Umsobomvu; Afrikaans: Umsobomvu Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality within the Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
Main places
The 2011 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 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 election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of seven seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
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