The Masilonyana Local Municipality council consists of nineteen members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.
Ten councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in ten wards, while the remaining nine are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
In the 2021 South African municipal elections the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of eleven seats on the council.
The following table shows the composition of the council after past elections.
[3] The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.