Ingquza Hill Local Municipality


Ingquza Hill Municipality, previously known as Qaukeni Municipality, is a local municipality within the OR Tambo District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Amakwalo123.868,467
Amanci5.21706
Amantlane117.1612,588
Awahlwazi25.034,082
Bala134.3915,995
Emtweni53.322,023
Flagstaff13.773,069
Gunyeni45.1213,493
Lusikisiki21.049,079
Lwandlolubomvu1.2478
Mkambati173.29800
Mtshayelo14.631,980
Mxobo86.089,632
Ndimakude16.101,765
Sipaqeni249.3134,069
Taweni342.8535,362
Xopozo79.497,835
Remainder of the municipality958.2594,357

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-two councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-two wards, while the remaining thirty-two 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 forty-six seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.