Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality, formerly known as Cradock Local Municipality, is a local municipality

Local municipality (South Africa)

In South Africa, a local municipality or Category B municipality is a type of municipality that serves as the third, and most local, tier of local government...

 in Chris Hani District Municipality

Chris Hani District Municipality

Chris Hani is one of the 7 districts of Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The seat of Chris Hani is Queenstown. The majority of its 810 274 people speak Xhosa , although Afrikaans speaking people predominate in the far west of the district...

, Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" Xhosa homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province...

. The seat is Cradock

Cradock, Eastern Cape

Cradock is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, in the upper valley of the Great Fish River, by rail northeast of Port Elizabeth. The town is the administrative seat of the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape. The estimated population...

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Government

Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality is governed by a 18-member council, and is divided into 9 electoral wards.

2004 general election

In the 2004 South African general election, the ANC

ANC

ANC commonly refers to the African National Congress, a revolutionary movement which became the ruling political party in South Africa in the 1994 election.ANC may also refer to:-Organizations:...

 received 70.0% of the vote (16,351 votes), with the Democratic Alliance (DA) coming second with a share of 23.9% (5,368 votes). The 3rd biggest part was the, now defunct, New National Party, which gained 1.6% and 363 votes.

2009 general election

In the 2009 South African general election, the ANC's percentage fell to 61.4% (14,140 votes), with the DA increasing their total number of votes (5,455 vote), albeit a slight decrease in percent (23.7%). A new part, COPE

COPE

COPE may refer to:* The Council of Pacific Education , a regional branch of Education International, the global federation of teachers' trade unions* Coalition of Progressive Electors, a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...

, gained 10.8% of the vote, and 2,485 votes.