Newcastle Local Municipality 2.98

Newcastle Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Amajuba District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.Main placesThe 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:PoliticsThe 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 (ANC) won a majority of forty-one seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.