Lukhanji Local Municipality
Template:Infobox South African municipality Lukhanji Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Lukhanji is a Xhosa name for the mountain that runs from the eastern side of Queenstown to the western side.[1] After municipal elections on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality.
Main places
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places
(Note: only places with more than 1,000 inhibitants listed here):[2]
Place | Census code | Area (km2) | Population |
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Angola, Lukhanji | 281037 | 3.78 | 1,693 |
Brakkloof | 281052 | 4.65 | 2,000 |
Embekweni | 281083 | 4.25 | 1,343 |
Ezibeleni | 281015 | 32.09 | 30,113 |
EZweledinga | 281093 | 2.89 | 1,022 |
Hewu | 281068 | 2.00 | 2,193 |
Illinge | 281029 | 4.65 | 10,689 |
KwaNkcwa | 281021 | 1.99 | 1,219 |
Lesseyton | 281013 | 2.53 | 2,715 |
Lower Didimana | 281050 | 2.39 | 1,288 |
McBride | 281038 | 2.39 | 2,127 |
Mlungisi | 281018 | 3.67 | 24,901 |
Mtebele | 281023 | 3.75 | 1,705 |
New Deka | 281012 | 1.68 | 1,163 |
Queenstown | 281017 | 67.63 | 43,971 |
Sada | 281067 | 4.57 | 13,493 |
Tambo | 281055 | 4.06 | 3,056 |
Toisekraal | 281011 | 1.02 | 1,467 |
Whittlesea | 281066 | 15.37 | 14,756 |
Remainder of the municipality | 281002 | 3,588.35 | 6,233 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of fifty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-seven wards, while the remaining twenty-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 forty-five seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.[3][4]
style="width: 2px; background-color: #006600;" data-sort-value="African National Congress" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #005BA6;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance (South Africa)" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #FFCA08;" data-sort-value="Congress of the People (South African political party)" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #FFB300;" data-sort-value="United Democratic Movement" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #008718;" data-sort-value="Pan Africanist Congress of Azania" | style="width: 2px; background-color: lightgrey;" data-sort-value="Pan Africanist Movement" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politics)" | style="width: 2px; background-color: lightgrey;" data-sort-value="People's Democratic Party (South Africa)" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #FF8040;" data-sort-value="National Freedom Party" |Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
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Ward[Note 1] | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total | ||
ANC | 38,507 | 39,655 | 78,162 | 82.8 | 26 | 19 | 45 | |
DA | 4,369 | 4,807 | 9,176 | 9.7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
COPE | 880 | 2,194 | 3,074 | 3.3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
UDM | 1,170 | 897 | 2,067 | 2.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
PAC | 384 | 360 | 744 | 0.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Pan Africanist Movement | 357 | 151 | 508 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Independent | 380 | – | 380 | 0.4 | 0 | – | 0 | |
People's Democratic Party | 107 | 60 | 167 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
NFP | 22 | 84 | 106 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 46,176 | 48,208 | 94,384 | 100.0 | 27 | 27 | 54 | |
Spoilt votes | 927 | 625 | 1,552 |
- ^ In one ward the ANC candidate was deemed elected without a ballot as no other candidates were nominated.
References
- ^ South African Languages - Place names
- ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
- ^ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Lukhanji" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ^ "Seat Calculation Detail: Lukhanji" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 November 2013.