Mamusa Local Municipality

Template:Infobox South African municipality Mamusa Local Municipality is a local municipality in Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. The Seat of localmunicipality is Schweizer-Reneke.

Politics

2014 General Election

The ANC and the collapsing COPE lost much support in the 2014 Election to the new party, EFF. The DA increased its vote at COPE's expense, while losing other votes back to VF+.

Party	Votes	%	change from 2004
African National Congress	14 356	74.89%	-6.55%
Economic Freedom Fighters	2 246	11.72%	new party
Democratic Alliance	1 447	7.55%	+0.83%
Freedom Front Plus	456	2.38%	+0.63%

2009 General Election

The ANC lost some support in the 2009 Election as a new party, COPE, entered the political field. The VF+ also lost some votes, mainly to the DA.

Party	Votes	%	change from 2004
African National Congress	14 679	81.44%	-4.64%
Congress of the People	1 223	6.79%	new party
Democratic Alliance	1 212	6.72%	+2.49%
Freedom Front Plus	316	1.75%	-0.88%

2004 General Election

In the 2004 General Election the Municipality voted overwhelmingly ANC, with most whites voting DA or the VF+

Party	Votes	%
African National Congress	13,768	86.08%
Democratic Alliance	676	4.23%
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	497	3.11%
Freedom Front Plus	420	2.63%

Municipal Elections

The municipal council consists of eighteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nine are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nine wards, while the remaining nine 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 eleven seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.^[1]^[2]

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Party		Votes				Seats
Party		Ward	List	Total	%	Ward	List	Total
ANC	9,727	9,553	19,280	58.8	8	3	11
Forum 4 Service Delivery	2,599	2,668	5,267	16.1	0	3	3
EFF	2,185	2,164	4,349	13.3	0	2	2
DA	988	1,000	1,988	6.1	1	0	1
VF+	573	553	1,126	3.4	0	1	1
COPE	276	306	582	1.8	0	0	0
African People's Convention	68	127	195	0.6	0	0	0
Total		16,416	16,371	32,787	100.0	9	9	18
Spoilt votes		347	356	703

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[3]

Place	Code	Area (km²)	Population	Most spoken language
Amalia	61301	1.59	1,578	Tswana
Glaudina	61302	1.07	1,688	Tswana
Ipelegeng	61303	4.00	30,053	Tswana
Molatswanene	61305	1.45	2,369	Tswana
Schweizer-Reneke	61306	3.81	2,601	Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality	61304	3,602.90	10,083	Tswana

References

^ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Mamusa" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
^ "Seat Calculation Detail: Mamusa" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

Official site

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[1] "Results Summary – All Ballots: Mamusa" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 5 May 2017.

[2] "Seat Calculation Detail: Mamusa" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 5 May 2017.

[3] Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa^{[permanent dead link]}

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