Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality

Enoch Mgijima
Enoch Mgijima
Local municipality
	Coordinates: 31°43′08″S 26°19′08″E / 31.719°S 26.319°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
District	Chris Hani
Seat	Komani
Government
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Madoda Papiyana (ANC)
• Speaker	Bongiwe Gladness van Heerden (ANC)
• Chief Whip	Nombuyiselo Selka Ndlebe (ANC)
Area
• Total	13,584 km2 (5,245 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	245,975
• Density	18/km2 (47/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	EC139

Enoch Mgijima Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala wase Enoch Mgijima) is a local municipality within the Chris Hani District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It was established after the August 2016 local elections by merging the Tsolwana, Inkwanca, and Lukhanji local municipalities.^[2]

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-four wards, while the remaining thirty-four 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 forty-four seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.^[3]

Enoch Mgijima local election, 1 November 2021
Party		Votes				Seats
Party		Ward	List	Total	%	Ward	List	Total
	African National Congress	33,057	34,676	67,733	62.2%	32	12	44
	Democratic Alliance	5,939	5,700	11,639	10.7%	1	6	7
	Economic Freedom Fighters	3,997	4,565	8,562	7.9%	0	6	6
	The Independents	3,033	4,196	7,229	6.6%	0	5	5
	Independent candidates	5,521	–	5,521	5.1%	1	–	1
	Independent South African National Civic Organisation	666	2,323	2,989	2.7%	0	2	2
	United Democratic Movement	569	738	1,307	1.2%	0	1	1
	Patriotic Alliance	582	560	1,142	1.0%	0	1	1
	African Transformation Movement	353	549	902	0.8%	0	1	1
	5 other parties	892	1,034	1,926	1.8%	0	0	0
Total		54,609	54,341	108,950		34	34	68

Valid votes		54,609	54,341	108,950	97.7%
Spoilt votes		1,116	1,463	2,579	2.3%
Total votes cast		55,725	55,804	111,529

Voter turnout		56,144
Registered voters		118,637
Turnout percentage		47.3%

1 2 Sum of the statistics from Census 2011 for Tsolwana, Inkwanca, Lukhanji.
↑ "The Local Government Handbook". Retrieved 6 August 2016.
↑ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Enoch Mgijima". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 2021-11-09.

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