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Port St. Johns Local Municipality

Coordinates: 31°37′42″S 29°32′16″E / 31.62833°S 29.53778°E / -31.62833; 29.53778
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Template:Infobox South African municipality Port St. Johns Local Municipality is an administrative area in the OR Tambo District of Eastern Cape in South Africa.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[1]

Place Code Area (km2) Population Most spoken language
Amakwalo 23301 57.81 5,165 Xhosa
Bomvini 23302 253.67 25,094 Xhosa
Emtweni 23303 221.68 22,729 Xhosa
Gunyeni 23304 63.03 15,408 Xhosa
Manzamhlophe 23305 133.75 13,394 Xhosa
Mvumelwano 23306 315.70 31,342 Xhosa
Ndluzula 23307 195.11 22,123 Xhosa
Port St Johns Part 1 23308 8.79 5,181 Xhosa
Port St Johns Part 2 23310 0.80 289 Xhosa
Qaukeni 23309 37.94 5,420 Xhosa

Main languages

The 2001 census recorded the following first languages: 98.69% IsiXhosa; 0.64% English; 0.20% Afrikaans; 0.13% IsiZulu; 0.12% SiSwati; 0.08% IsiNdebele; 0.06% Sesotho; and 0.08% other languages.

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty wards, while the remaining nineteen 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 thirty-one 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: lightgrey;" data-sort-value="Civic Independent" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #005BA6;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance (South Africa)" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFB300;" data-sort-value="United Democratic Movement" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #852A2A;" data-sort-value="Economic Freedom Fighters" | 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: #008718;" data-sort-value="Pan Africanist Congress of Azania" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ba0c2f;" data-sort-value="African Christian Democratic Party" |
Party Votes Seats
Ward List Total % Ward List Total
ANC 33,072 33,042 66,114 79.5 20 11 31
Civic Independent 2,762 2,588 5,350 6.4 0 3 3
DA 2,406 2,340 4,746 5.7 0 2 2
UDM 1,692 1,877 3,569 4.3 0 2 2
EFF 1,243 1,184 2,427 2.9 0 1 1
Independent 393 – 393 0.5 0 – 0
COPE 134 241 375 0.4 0 0 0
PAC 9 121 130 0.2 0 0 0
ACDP 14 83 97 0.1 0 0 0
Total 41,725 41,476 83,201 100.0 20 19 39
Spoilt votes 866 982 1,848

References

  1. ^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa
  2. ^ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Port St Johns" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Seat Calculation Detail: Port St Johns" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 December 2016.

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