Maquassi Hills Local Municipality

Maquassi Hills Municipality (Tswana: Mmasepala wa Maquassi Hills; Afrikaans: Maquassi Hills Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality within the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, in the North West province of South Africa.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[3]

Place	Code	Area (km²)	Population	Most spoken language
Kareeboom	62001	5.34	66	Tswana
Kgakala	62002	1.64	9,961	Tswana
Lebaleng	62003	0.98	8,417	Tswana
Leeudoringstad	62004	2.69	1,492	Afrikaans
Makwassie	62005	7.28	3,486	Tswana
Rulaganyang	62007	0.37	1,269	Tswana
Tswelelang	62008	2.29	20,101	Tswana
Witpoort	62009	17.78	374	Afrikaans
Wolmaransstad	62010	7.13	2,607	Afrikaans
Remainder of the municipality	62006	4,598.81	20,662	Tswana

The municipal council consists of twenty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Eleven are elected by first-past-the-post voting in eleven wards, while the remaining eleven 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 thirteen seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.^[4]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	10,628	62.70	11	9,877	58.59	2	13
	Economic Freedom Fighters	2,616	15.43	0	2,643	15.68	4	4
	Democratic Alliance	1,887	11.13	0	1,826	10.83	2	2
	South African Political Association	648	3.82	0	786	4.66	1	1
	Freedom Front Plus	597	3.52	0	625	3.71	1	1
	Forum for Service Delivery	343	2.02	0	318	1.89	1	1
	African Independent Congress				552	3.27	0	0
	African Freedom Revolution	177	1.04	0	161	0.96	0	0
	African Transformation Movement	10	0.06	0	41	0.24	0	0
	United Christian Democratic Party	15	0.09	0	28	0.17	0	0
	Independent candidates	30	0.18	0				0
Total		16,951	100.00	11	16,857	100.00	11	22

Valid votes		16,951	97.57		16,857	97.28
Invalid/blank votes		423	2.43		472	2.72
Total votes		17,374	100.00		17,329	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		36,602	47.47		36,602	47.34

^ "Contact list: Executive Mayors". Government Communication & Information System. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Statistics by place". Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
^ Lookup Tables - Statistics South Africa^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Maquassi Hills". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 4 December 2021.

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