Senqu Local Municipality
Senqu Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Joe Gqabi District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Senqu is a Sesotho name for the Orange River.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population |
| Amaqwati | 62.98 | 4,284 | |
| Amavundla | 86.37 | 8,123 | |
| Barkly East | 16.10 | 4,292 | |
| Basoto | 250.74 | 31,727 | |
| Batlokoa | 127.83 | 5,054 | |
| Herschel | 4.89 | 561 | |
| Hlubi | 1,061.37 | 51,548 | |
| Khwezinaledi | 0.81 | 4,793 | |
| Lady Grey | 23.75 | 1,312 | |
| Mfelandawonye | 0.05 | 27 | |
| Myamane | 122.04 | 9,296 | |
| Nkululeko | 0.53 | 4,077 | |
| Polar Park | 0.05 | 630 | |
| Rhodes | 10.28 | 129 | |
| Rossouw | 0.66 | 302 | |
| Sterkspruit | 4.02 | 1,557 | |
| Zakhele | 0.14 | 377 | |
| Zola | 0.02 | 337 | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 4,998.12 | 6,736 |
Politics
The municipal council consists of thirty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seventeen wards, while the remaining seventeen 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 twenty-three seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.