Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality

Local municipality in Eastern Cape, South Africa

Raymond Mhlaba Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala wase Raymond Mhlaba; Afrikaans: Raymond Mhlaba Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It was established after the 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 (ANC) won a majority of thirty-three seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.


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

^ Sum of the statistics from Census 2011 for Nkonkobe, Nxuba.
"The Local Government Handbook". Retrieved 6 August 2016.
"Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Raymond Mhlaba". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2022-03-03.

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Amathole	Amahlathi Great Kei Mbhashe Mnquma Ngqushwa Raymond Mhlaba
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Joe Gqabi	Elundini Senqu Walter Sisulu
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Alfred Nzo	Matatiele Ntabankulu Umzimvubu Winnie Madikizela-Mandela