[2] In terms of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution and the judgment of the Constitutional Court in United Democratic Movement v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others, in the period from 8–22 October 2002 councillors had the opportunity to cross the floor to a different political party without losing their seats.
[5] The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period between the elections in May 2011 and August 2016.
[6][7][8] The DA subsequently lost two seats to the African National Congress (ANC) in by-elections held on 12 December 2018,[9] and 18 September 2019.
[10] The council was reconfigured as seen below: On 26 June 2019, DA councillor Bertie Zass voted with the ANC to remove the DA-ADC coalition from power.
[11][12][13][14] On 22 July 2019, the Western Cape High Court ruled that the elections of the ANC councillors to senior municipal positions were unlawful.
A motion of no-confidence in CE mayor Ruben Richards, after he was accused of corruption, was later passed with the support of one DA councillor, the speaker William Farmer.