uMlalazi Local Municipality is an administrative area in the King Cetshwayo District of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

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

Twenty-eight councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-eight wards, while the remaining twenty-seven 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 Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) won a majority of thirty seats on the council.

The following table shows the results of the election.