Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality

Inkosi Langalibalele Municipality (UMasipala we Nkosi Langalibalele) is a local municipality within the uThukela District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It was established after the 2016 South African municipal elections by merging the Imbabazane and uMtshezi local municipalities.

Politics
The municipal council consists of forty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-four councillors were elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-four wards, while the remaining twenty-three 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 1 November 2021 the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) obtained a plurality of twenty-one seats. The following table shows the results of the election.