Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality
Ba-Phalaborwa Municipality is a local municipality within the Mopani District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat is Phalaborwa.
Main places
The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language | Ga-Makhushane | 9.92 | 13,499 | Northern Sotho | |
| Ga-Mashishimale | 13,920 | 13.35 | Northern Sotho | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Ga-Selwana | 4.65 | 5,263 | Northern Sotho | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Ga-Maseke | 4.86 | 2,752 | Northern Sotho | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Namakgale | 12.97 | 36,365 | Northern Sotho | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Boelang | 0.43 | 291 | Northern Sotho | - | - | - | - | - |
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nineteen wards, while the remaining eighteen 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 African National Congress won a majority of twenty-four seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.