Country South Africa District Gert Sibande Wards 15 | Province Mpumalanga Seat Standerton Time zone SAST (UTC+2) | |
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Lekwa Local Municipality, is a South African Local Municipality situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality, of Mpumalanga. Standerton is the Seat of the municipality.
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Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Fifteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fifteen wards, while the remaining fifteen 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 twenty seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.