The Ndlambe Local Municipality council consists of twenty members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.
Ten councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in ten wards, while the remaining ten are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of eleven seats.
The following table shows the composition of the council after past elections.
The following table shows the results of the 2000 election.