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Blue Crane Route Local Municipality

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Country
  
South Africa

Seat
  
Somerset East

Time zone
  
SAST (UTC+2)

Area
  
11,068 kmĀ²

Black african population
  
59%

Native english speakers
  
3.4%

Province
  
Eastern Cape

Wards
  
6

Municipal code
  
EC102

White population
  
6.8%

Native afrikaans speakers
  
43.2%

Native xhosa speakers
  
51.3%

Blue Crane Route Local Municipality

District
  
Sarah Baartman District Municipality

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Blue Crane Route Local Municipality (Afrikaans: Bloukraanroete Plaaslike Munisipaliteit) is an administrative area in the Cacadu District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa.

Contents

Map of Somerset East, South Africa

The municipality is named after the South African national bird, the blue crane.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Politics

The municipal council consists of eleven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Six councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in six wards, while the remaining five 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of seven seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.

References

Blue Crane Route Local Municipality Wikipedia


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