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Mtubatuba Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Mtubatuba) is a local municipality within the Umkhanyakude District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[4]

Place	Code	Area (km²)	Population
Dukuduku State Forest	53602	155.88	132
Dukuduku	53601	3.51	6,364
Honeydale	53603	0.62	788
Mpukunyoni	53604	9.66	10,647
Msane	53605	1.40	5,233
Mtubatuba	53612	4.67	2,020
Nyalazi State Forest	53607	221.22	424
Sokhulu	53608	36.91	6,450
St Lucia Estuary	53610	18.85	134
St Lucia	53609	2.82	864
Umfolozi	53611	36.47	0
Remainder of the municipality	53606	211.47	2,136

The municipal council consists of forty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-three wards, while the remaining twenty-two are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.^{[citation needed]}

In the election of 1 November 2021 no party obtained a majority. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) received the most seats with nineteen. An IFP-led executive was elected on 3 February 2022.^[5]

The following table shows the results of the election.^[6]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	Inkatha Freedom Party	23,138	40.72	15	25,053	44.16	4	19
	African National Congress	19,903	35.03	7	20,949	36.92	9	16
	Economic Freedom Fighters	5,148	9.06	0	5,146	9.07	4	4
	Independent candidates	3,202	5.63	1				1
	African Christian Democratic Party	1,192	2.10	0	1,263	2.23	1	1
	Democratic Alliance	1,065	1.87	0	1,119	1.97	1	1
	African Independent Congress	656	1.15	0	588	1.04	1	1
	United Democratic Movement	533	0.94	0	531	0.94	1	1
	National Freedom Party	493	0.87	0	494	0.87	1	1
	United Christian Democratic Party	502	0.88	0	457	0.81	0	0
	African People's Movement	281	0.49	0	325	0.57	0	0
	African People's Convention	164	0.29	0	227	0.40	0	0
	Abantu Batho Congress	186	0.33	0	159	0.28	0	0
	Al Jama-ah	99	0.17	0	95	0.17	0	0
	Democratic Union Plus	111	0.20	0	81	0.14	0	0
	African Transformation Movement	89	0.16	0	102	0.18	0	0
	Black First Land First	34	0.06	0	50	0.09	0	0
	National People's Front	19	0.03	0	60	0.11	0	0
	Patriotic Alliance	10	0.02	0	37	0.07	0	0
Total		56,825	100.00	23	56,736	100.00	22	45

Valid votes		56,825	98.07		56,736	98.04
Invalid/blank votes		1,118	1.93		1,133	1.96
Total votes		57,943	100.00		57,869	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		101,008	57.36		101,008	57.29