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Camdeboo Local Municipality

Coordinates: 32°15′20″S 24°32′26″E / 32.25556°S 24.54056°E / -32.25556; 24.54056
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Template:Infobox South African municipality Camdeboo Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Sarah Baartman District Municipality of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. After municipal elections on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality.

The name Camdeboo (or Qamdobowa in Xhosa language) has evolved from a phonetically similar Khoi word meaning "green hollow".[1]

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[2]

Place Code Population Most spoken language
Aberdeen 20101 4,979 Afrikaans
Graaff-Reinet 20103 24,230 Afrikaans
Nieu-Bethesda 20104 1,007 Afrikaans
Thembalesizwe 20105 1,338 Xhosa
uMasizakhe 20106 8,234 Xhosa
Remainder of the municipality 20102 4,577 Afrikaans

Politics

The municipal council consists of fourteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seven wards, while the remaining seven 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 18 May 2011 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of eight seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[3][4]

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #006600;" data-sort-value="African National Congress" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #005BA6;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance (South Africa)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: lightgrey;" data-sort-value="Independent Ratepayers Association of SA" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF6600;" data-sort-value="Freedom Front Plus" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #008718;" data-sort-value="Pan Africanist Congress of Azania" |
Party Votes Seats
Ward List Total % Ward List Total
ANC 7,382 7,493 14,875 55.5 4 4 8
DA 5,586 5,634 11,220 41.9 3 3 6
Independent Ratepayers Association of SA 174 89 263 1.0 0 0 0
VF+ 136 95 231 0.9 0 0 0
PAC 121 90 211 0.8 0 0 0
Total 13,399 13,401 26,800 100.0 7 7 14
Spoilt votes 155 144 299

References

  1. ^ South African Languages - Place names
  2. ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Camdeboo" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Seat Calculation Detail: Camdeboo" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 November 2013.

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