Engcobo Local Municipality


Engcobo Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Ngcobo is an isiXhosa name for a sweet grass found in the area.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Amantondo132.827,033
Amaqwati167.6516,863
Dumalisile128.988,330
Ngcobo26.556,124
Gqutyini259.7312,165
Hala185.3113,339
Jumba279.2716,774
Luhewini149.0214,707
Moshi171.9011,447
Sidindi386.9023,005
Singqumeni166.646,113
Tara46.353,190
Upper Gqobonco157.679,319

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty wards, while the remaining nineteen 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 won a majority of thirty-three seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.