At the end of the apartheid era, the area that is today the Prince Albert Local Municipality formed part of the Central Karoo Regional Services Council (RSC).

The TLCs were initially made up of members nominated by the various parties to the negotiations, until May 1996 when elections were held.

According to the 2022 South African census, the municipality had a population of 17,836, increasing at an average rate of 3.0% annually from 2011.

[5] The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period from the election in November 2021.

The by-election took place after the Karoo Gemeenskap Party (KGP), in a coalition with the African National Congress (ANC) and Patriotic Alliance (PA), expelled its ward councillor and mayor Margy Jaftha for supporting the Democratic Alliance (DA) in a motion to replace the speaker and the deputy mayor with DA representatives.