Mtubatuba Local Municipality
Mtubatuba Municipality is a local municipality within the Umkhanyakude District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It is named after one of the longest serving Zulu chief, Nkosi Mtubatuba.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population |
| Dukuduku State Forest | 155.88 | 132 | |
| Dukuduku | 3.51 | 6,364 | |
| Honeydale | 0.62 | 788 | |
| Mpukunyoni | 9.66 | 10,647 | |
| Msane | 1.40 | 5,233 | |
| Mtubatuba | 4.67 | 2,020 | |
| Nyalazi State Forest | 221.22 | 424 | |
| Sokhulu | 36.91 | 6,450 | |
| St Lucia Estuary | 18.85 | 134 | |
| St Lucia | 2.82 | 864 | |
| Umfolozi | 36.47 | 0 | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 211.47 | 2,136 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of forty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-three wards, while the remaining twenty-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 no party obtained a majority. The Inkatha Freedom Party received the most seats with nineteen. An IFP-led executive was elected on 3 February 2022.
The following table shows the results of the election.