Newcastle Local Municipality
Newcastle Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Amajuba District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population |
| Charlestown | 18.48 | 3,204 | |
| Hlubi | 108.11 | 73,931 | |
| Madadeni | 25.15 | 116,798 | |
| Newcastle | 199.06 | 44,123 | |
| Ngagane | 4.90 | 1,206 | |
| Osizweni | 15.35 | 80,265 | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 1,483.87 | 13,449 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-four wards, while the remaining thirty-three 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 forty-one seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.
In a by-election held on 5 April 2017, a ward previously held by the ANC was won by an independent candidate. Council composition was reconfigured as seen below: