Alfred Duma Local Municipality


Alfred Duma Municipality is a local municipality within the uThukela District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It was established for the 2016 South African [municipal elections|August 2016 local elections] by merging the Emnambithi/Ladysmith and Indaka local municipalities.

Politics

The municipal council consists of seventy-three members elected by mixed-member [proportional representation]. Thirty-seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-seven wards, while the remaining thirty-six 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 1 November 2021 the Inkatha Freedom Party won a plurality of thirty-three seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.

By-elections from November 2021

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period since the election in November 2021.