The Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality council was established in 2016,[1] and consists of sixty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.
In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of 44 seats.
[4] A by-election was held in ward 33 on 20 April 2022 after the court ordered a rerun due to irregularities.
Independent candidate Ntombekhaya Kortman, who had lost by 4 votes in 2021, won the rerun.
Kortman died later that year after an illness, and in a by-election held on 30 November, the ANC regained the seat.