# Mtubatuba Local Municipality

Mtubatuba Municipality (Zulu: UMasipala wase Mtubatuba) is a local municipality within the Umkhanyakude District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

## Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
| Place | Code | Area (km$^2$) | Population |
| Dukuduku State Forest | 53602 | 155.88 | 132 |
| Dukuduku | 53601 | 3.51 | 6,364 |
| Honeydale | 53603 | 0.62 | 788 |
| Mpukunyoni | 53604 | 9.66 | 10,647 |
| Msane | 53605 | 1.40 | 5,233 |
| Mtubatuba | 53612 | 4.67 | 2,020 |
| Nyalazi State Forest | 53607 | 221.22 | 424 |
| Sokhulu | 53608 | 36.91 | 6,450 |
| St Lucia Estuary | 53610 | 18.85 | 134 |
| St Lucia | 53609 | 2.82 | 864 |
| Umfolozi | 53611 | 36.47 | 0 |
| Remainder of the municipality | 53606 | 211.47 | 2,136 |

## Politics

The municipal council consists of forty-five members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-three councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-three wards, while the remaining twenty-two 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 no party obtained a majority. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) received the most seats with nineteen. An IFP-led executive was elected on 3 February 2022.
The following table shows the results of the election.
| Party | Party | Ward | Ward | Ward | List | List | List | Total seats |
| Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Total seats |
| | Inkatha Freedom Party | 23,138 | 40.72 | 15 | 25,053 | 44.16 | 4 | 19 |
| | African National Congress | 19,903 | 35.03 | 7 | 20,949 | 36.92 | 9 | 16 |
| | Economic Freedom Fighters | 5,148 | 9.06 | 0 | 5,146 | 9.07 | 4 | 4 |
| | Independent candidates | 3,202 | 5.63 | 1 | | | | 1 |
| | African Christian Democratic Party | 1,192 | 2.10 | 0 | 1,263 | 2.23 | 1 | 1 |
| | Democratic Alliance | 1,065 | 1.87 | 0 | 1,119 | 1.97 | 1 | 1 |
| | African Independent Congress | 656 | 1.15 | 0 | 588 | 1.04 | 1 | 1 |
| | United Democratic Movement | 533 | 0.94 | 0 | 531 | 0.94 | 1 | 1 |
| | National Freedom Party | 493 | 0.87 | 0 | 494 | 0.87 | 1 | 1 |
| | United Christian Democratic Party | 502 | 0.88 | 0 | 457 | 0.81 | 0 | 0 |
| | African People's Movement | 281 | 0.49 | 0 | 325 | 0.57 | 0 | 0 |
| | African People's Convention | 164 | 0.29 | 0 | 227 | 0.40 | 0 | 0 |
| | Abantu Batho Congress | 186 | 0.33 | 0 | 159 | 0.28 | 0 | 0 |
| | Al Jama-ah | 99 | 0.17 | 0 | 95 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 |
| | Democratic Union Plus | 111 | 0.20 | 0 | 81 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 |
| | African Transformation Movement | 89 | 0.16 | 0 | 102 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 |
| | Black First Land First | 34 | 0.06 | 0 | 50 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 |
| | National People's Front | 19 | 0.03 | 0 | 60 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 |
| | Patriotic Alliance | 10 | 0.02 | 0 | 37 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 56,825 | 100.00 | 23 | 56,736 | 100.00 | 22 | 45 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 56,825 | 98.07 | | 56,736 | 98.04 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 1,118 | 1.93 | | 1,133 | 1.96 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 57,943 | 100.00 | | 57,869 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 101,008 | 57.36 | | 101,008 | 57.29 | | |