Senqu Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala wase Senqu; Sotho: Masepala wa Senqu) is a local municipality within the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Senqu is the Sesotho name for the Orange River.

[4] The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[5] The municipal council consists of thirty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.

Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seventeen wards, while the remaining seventeen 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 an increased majority of twenty-five seats on the council.