Mtubatuba Local Municipality
Mtubatuba is an administrative area in the Umkhanyakude District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population |
| Dukuduku State Forest | 155.88 | 132 | |
| Dukuduku | 3.51 | 6,364 | |
| Honeydale | 0.62 | 788 | |
| Mpukunyoni | 9.66 | 10,647 | |
| Msane | 1.40 | 5,233 | |
| Mtubatuba | 4.67 | 2,020 | |
| Nyalazi State Forest | 221.22 | 424 | |
| Sokhulu | 36.91 | 6,450 | |
| St Lucia Estuary | 18.85 | 134 | |
| St Lucia | 2.82 | 864 | |
| Umfolozi | 36.47 | 0 | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 211.47 | 2,136 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of forty members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty wards, while the remaining twenty 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 no party obtained a majority. The Inkatha Freedom Party formed a government with the support of the Democratic Alliance and the Economic Freedom Fighters.The following table shows the results of the election.
In a by-election held on 23 May 2018, a ward previously held by an ANC councillor was won by the IFP candidate. In another by-election held on 12 December 2018, ANC was able to win a ward previously held by the IFP. IFP won a second ward previously held by ANC in another by-election on 12 June 2019. Current council composition is as seen below.