The Big Five Hlabisa Local Municipality council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.
Fourteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
[1] In the election of 3 August 2016 the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won a majority of thirteen seats on the council.
The following table shows the composition of the council and its predecessors after past elections.
The Big Five False Bay and Hlabisa municipalities were merged at the time of the 2016 election.