Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality elections

The Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality council was established in 2016 by the merging of the Nkonkobe and Nxuba local municipalities^[1] and 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 (ANC) won a majority of thirty-three seats.

Results

The following table shows the composition of the council after past elections.

Event	ANC	DA	EFF	Other	Total
2016 election	38	5	3	0	46
2021 election	33	3	3	6	45

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.^[2]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	34,232	76.77	23	35,725	80.84	15	38
	Democratic Alliance	4,338	9.73	0	4,517	10.22	5	5
	Economic Freedom Fighters	2,097	4.70	0	2,711	6.13	3	3
	Independent candidates	3,129	7.02	0				0
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	457	1.02	0	298	0.67	0	0
	United Democratic Movement	225	0.50	0	454	1.03	0	0
	African People's Convention	48	0.11	0	322	0.73	0	0
	African Christian Democratic Party	67	0.15	0	164	0.37	0	0
Total		44,593	100.00	23	44,191	100.00	23	46

Valid votes		44,593	97.90		44,191	97.11
Invalid/blank votes		957	2.10		1,314	2.89
Total votes		45,550	100.00		45,505	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		82,963	54.90		82,963	54.85

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.^[3]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	26,026	70.11	20	26,940	75.44	13	33
	Economic Freedom Fighters	2,277	6.13	0	2,806	7.86	3	3
	Democratic Alliance	2,475	6.67	0	2,553	7.15	3	3
	Independent candidates	5,008	13.49	3				3
	Patriotic Alliance	587	1.58	0	650	1.82	1	1
	African Independent Congress				998	2.79	1	1
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	250	0.67	0	746	2.09	1	1
	African Transformation Movement	150	0.40	0	632	1.77	0	0
	Freedom Front Plus	144	0.39	0	159	0.45	0	0
	Congress of the People	47	0.13	0	226	0.63	0	0
	Land Party	156	0.42	0				0
Total		37,120	100.00	23	35,710	100.00	22	45

Valid votes		37,120	97.83		35,710	94.28
Invalid/blank votes		825	2.17		2,167	5.72
Total votes		37,945	100.00		37,877	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		78,861	48.12		78,861	48.03

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

Date	Ward	Party of the previous councillor		Party of the newly elected councillor
20 Nov 2024^[4]	23		African National Congress		African National Congress

^ "The Local Government Handbook". Retrieved 6 August 2016.
^ "Election Result Table for LGE2016 — Raymond Mhlaba". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Raymond Mhlaba". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
^ Sussman, Wayne (21 November 2024). "PA piles pressure on DA, ANC in Western, Eastern Cape wards". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 21 November 2024.