The District Council of Kapunda was a local government area in South Australia from 1866 to 1996.

The Kapunda town corporation was formed a year earlier in 1865 and ultimately amalgamated into the district council.

The inaugural mayor was Matthew Blood and councillors were John Mullen, Richard Rowett, Richard Day, James Crase, Joseph Tuckfield, Stephen Bennett, James Pearce and William Lewis.

[1] The following year on 5 July 1866 the District Council of Kapunda was established immediately north of the corporate town boundaries, bringing local governance to the remainder of the Hundred of Kapunda.

[2] The inaugural district councillors were John Ford, William Oldham, Thomas Duell, James Stokes, and Henry Kelly.