Dikgatlong Local Municipality
Dikgatlong Local Municipality is an administrative area in the Frances Baard District of the Northern Cape in South Africa. Dikgatlong is a Setswana name meaning "confluence", and refers to the place where the Harts and Vaal rivers flow into each other in Delportshoop. The name was used as early as 1700.The 2011 census divided the municipality into the following main places:Politics
The municipal council consists of thirteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seven councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seven wards, while the remaining six 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 nine seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the election.
In a by-election held on 26 April 2017, a ward previously held by the ANC was won by an independent candidate. Council composition was reconfigured as seen below:
