UMdoni Local Municipality


uMdoni Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Ugu District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Umdoni is an isiZulu name for the indigenous tree, Mdoni.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
PlaceCodeArea Population
Bazley Beach1.36193
Cele25.5512,338
Elysium1.58163
Emalangeni20.699,962
Ezembeni24.629,872
Ifafa Beach0.49234
Ifafa Marina0.5217
Kelso5.931,178
Mtwalume2.84368
Park Rynie7.782,923
Pennington2.471,278
Scottburgh5.383,107
Sezela7.361,604
Umzinto12.51,4720
Remainder of the municipality118.874,138

Politics

The municipal council consists of thirty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Nineteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in nineteen wards, while the remaining eighteen 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.