Ditsobotla Local Municipality
Template:Infobox South African municipality Ditsobotla Local Municipality is a local municipality in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. The seat of local municipality is Lichtenburg.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[1]
Place | Code | Area (km2) | Population | Most spoken language |
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Bakwena Ba Ga Serobatse | 60901 | 2.37 | 1,392 | Tswana |
Banogeng | 60902 | 0.72 | 502 | Tswana |
Boikhutso | 60903 | 2.22 | 16,914 | Tswana |
Coligny | 60904 | 3.50 | 7,000 | Tswana |
Ga-Raphalane | 60906 | 26.34 | 24,104 | Tswana |
Itekeng | 60907 | 0.35 | 2,591 | Tswana |
Itsoseng | 60908 | 7.62 | 22,879 | Tswana |
Kopano | 60909 | 6.78 | 8,325 | Tswana |
Lichtenburg | 60910 | 87.13 | 11,927 | Afrikaans |
Mosiane | 60911 | 1.73 | 1,056 | Tswana |
Tlhabologang | 60912 | 0.63 | 5,852 | Tswana |
Remainder of the municipality | 60905 | 6,325.49 | 45,059 | Tswana |
Politics
The municipal council consists of forty members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty wards, while the remaining twenty 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of twenty-five seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[2][3]
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: #852A2A;" data-sort-value="Economic Freedom Fighters" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF6600;" data-sort-value="Freedom Front Plus" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: lightgrey;" data-sort-value="Forum 4 Service Delivery" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ba0c2f;" data-sort-value="African Christian Democratic Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #046D2A;" data-sort-value="African People's Convention" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politics)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFCA08;" data-sort-value="Congress of the People (South African political party)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #77A32E;" data-sort-value="United Christian Democratic Party" |Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
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Ward | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total | ||
ANC | 22,201 | 22,262 | 44,463 | 61.7 | 18 | 7 | 25 | |
DA | 6,431 | 6,495 | 12,926 | 17.9 | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
EFF | 4,238 | 4,349 | 8,587 | 11.9 | 0 | 5 | 5 | |
VF+ | 926 | 933 | 1,859 | 2.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Forum 4 Service Delivery | 777 | 735 | 1,512 | 2.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
ACDP | 442 | 448 | 890 | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
APC | 247 | 329 | 576 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Independent | 449 | – | 449 | 0.6 | 0 | – | 0 | |
COPE | 186 | 241 | 427 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
UCDP | 179 | 239 | 418 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 36,076 | 36,031 | 72,107 | 100.0 | 20 | 20 | 40 | |
Spoilt votes | 866 | 876 | 1,742 |
In a by-election held on 25 April 2018, a ward previously held by an ANC councillor was won by the EFF candidate.[4] Council composition was reconfigured as seen below:
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: #852A2A;" data-sort-value="Economic Freedom Fighters" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ba0c2f;" data-sort-value="African Christian Democratic Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: lightgrey;" data-sort-value="Forum 4 Service Delivery" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF6600;" data-sort-value="Freedom Front Plus" |Party | Ward | PR list | Total | |
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ANC | 17 | 7 | 24 | |
DA | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
EFF | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
ACDP | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Forum 4 Service Delivery | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
VF+ | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Total | 20 | 20 | 40 |
References
- ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Ditsobotla" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ^ "Seat Calculation Detail: Ditsobotla" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ^ "EFF takes seat from ANC in North West by-election". News24. 26 April 2018.