The Umvoti Local Municipality council consists of twenty-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation.
Fourteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of fifteen seats on the council.
The party lost its majority in the election of 1 November 2021, obtaining a plurality of ten.
[5] The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period from the election in November 2021.