Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-one members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-one wards, while the remaining thirty 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 18 May 2011 the Democratic Alliance (DA) obtained a majority of thirty-five seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.
| Party | Votes | Vote % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward | List | Total | ||||
| Democratic Alliance | 84,535 | 56.9 | 22 | 13 | 35 | |
| African National Congress | 45,818 | 30.8 | 9 | 10 | 19 | |
| National People's Party | 5,524 | 3.7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Congress of the People | 4,640 | 3.1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Independent | 1,743 | 1.2 | 0 | – | 0 | |
| African Christian Democratic Party | 1,480 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| South African Progressive Civic Organisation | 1,066 | 0.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| People's Democratic Movement | 1,010 | 0.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| United Christian Democratic Party | 612 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Khoisan Party | 560 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Democratic Christian Party | 514 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Freedom Front Plus | 512 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| African Bond of Unity | 266 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Western Cape Community | 206 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| National Independent Civic Organisation | 146 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 148,632 | 100.0 | 31 | 30 | 61 | |
| Spoilt votes | 206 | |||||
The local council sends eight representatives to the council of the Cape Winelands District Municipality: five from the Democratic Alliance and three from the African National Congress.
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