Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality


Raymond Mhlaba Municipality is a Local [municipality |local municipality], in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It was established after the 2016 [South African municipal elections|August 2016 local elections] by merging the Nkonkobe and Nxuba local municipalities.

Towns/villages in the municipal area

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 the African National Congress won a majority of thirty-three seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.