Nkonkobe Local Municipality was an administrative area in the Amatole District of the Eastern Cape in South Africa.

The municipality is named after the Winterberg mountain range, Nkonkobe in isiXhosa.

Other towns served by the municipality are Seymour, Balfour, Hogsback and Middledrift.

Twenty-one councillors were elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-one wards, while the remaining twenty were chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives was proportional to the number of votes received.

In the election of 18 May 2011 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-five seats on the council.