The Setsoto Local Municipality council consists of thirty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.
Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seventeen wards, while the remaining sixteen 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 seventeen seats on the council.
The following table shows the composition of the council after past elections.
[5] The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period from November 2021.