Lukhanji Local Municipality


Lukhanji Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Lukhanji is a Xhosa name for the mountain that runs from the eastern side of Queenstown to the western side. After municipal elections on 3 August 2016 it was merged into the larger Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality.

Main places

The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places
:
PlaceCensus codeArea Population
Angola, Lukhanji3.781,693
Brakkloof4.652,000
Embekweni4.251,343
Ezibeleni32.0930,113
EZweledinga2.891,022
Hewu2.002,193
Illinge4.6510,689
KwaNkcwa1.991,219
Lesseyton2.532,715
Lower Didimana2.391,288
McBride2.392,127
Mlungisi3.6724,901
Mtebele3.751,705
New Deka1.681,163
Queenstown67.6343,971
Sada4.5713,493
Tambo4.063,056
Toisekraal1.021,467
Whittlesea15.3714,756
Remainder of the municipality3,588.356,233

Politics

The municipal council consisted of fifty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-seven councillors were elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-seven wards, while the remaining twenty-seven were chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 18 May 2011 the African National Congress won a majority of forty-five seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.