Английская Википедия:Garden Route District Municipality
The Garden Route District Municipality (Шаблон:Lang-af; Шаблон:Lang-xh), formerly known as the Eden District Municipality,[1] is a district municipality located in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its municipality code is DC4.
Geography
The Garden Route District Municipality covers an area of Шаблон:Convert in the southeastern part of the Western Cape, covering the regions known as the Garden Route and the Little Karoo. It stretches to the Breede River mouth and the Langeberg mountains on the west, where it abuts the Overberg District Municipality and (for a short distance) the Cape Winelands District Municipality. To the north the boundary with the Central Karoo District Municipality runs along the Swartberg mountains. In the east the municipality runs up to the Eastern Cape provincial boundary.
The district is divided into seven local municipalities, described in the following table.
Name | Seat | Population (2011) |
Area (km2) |
Density (inhabitants/km2) |
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Kannaland[2] | Ladismith | 24,767 | 4,758 | 5.2 |
Hessequa[3] | Riversdale | 52,642 | 5,733 | 9.2 |
Mossel Bay[4] | Mossel Bay | 89,430 | 2,011 | 44.5 |
George[5] | George | 193,672 | 5,191 | 37.3 |
Oudtshoorn[6] | Oudtshoorn | 95,933 | 3,537 | 27.1 |
Bitou[7] | Plettenberg Bay | 49,162 | 992 | 49.6 |
Knysna[8] | Knysna | 68,659 | 1,109 | 61.9 |
Total | 574,265 | 23,331 | 24.6 |
Demographics
The following statistics are from the 2011 Census.[9] Note that due to fuzzing applied to statistics, columns may not sum to exactly the indicated total.
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Politics
Шаблон:Politics of Western Cape The council of the Garden Route District Municipality consists of thirty-five councillors. Fourteen councillors are directly elected by party-list proportional representation, and twenty-one are appointed by the councils of the local municipalities in the district: six by George, four by Mossel Bay, three each by Oudtshoorn and Knysna, two each by Hessequa and Bitou, and one by Kannaland.
After the election of 3 August 2016 there are twenty-one councillors from the Democratic Alliance (DA), twelve from the African National Congress (ANC), and one each from the Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (ICOSA) and the African Independent Congress (AIC).[10]
The following table shows the detailed composition of the council.[10]
Party | Directly elected |
Appointed by local councils | Total | |||||||
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Kannaland | Hessequa | Mossel Bay | George | Oudtshoorn | Bitou | Knysna | ||||
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 21 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | ||
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 1 | 1 |
The following table shows the results of the election of the fourteen directly elected councillors.[11][12]
Party | Votes | Vote % | Seats | |
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Шаблон:Party name with colour | 106,242 | 53.2% | 8 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 61,755 | 30.9% | 5 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 10,791 | 5.4% | 1 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 3,965 | 2.0% | 0 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 3,604 | 1.8% | 0 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 3,380 | 1.7% | 0 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 2,592 | 1.3% | 0 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 2,439 | 1.2% | 0 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 1,804 | 0.9% | 0 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 1,018 | 0.5% | 0 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 858 | 0.4% | 0 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 525 | 0.3% | 0 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 378 | 0.2% | 0 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 314 | 0.2% | 0 | |
Шаблон:Party name with colour | 163 | 0.1% | 0 | |
Total | 199,828 | 14 | ||
Valid votes | 199,828 | 98.1% | ||
Spoilt votes | 3,819 | 1.9% | ||
Total votes cast | 203,647 | |||
Registered voters | 326,165 | |||
Turnout percentage | 62.4% |
References
External links
Шаблон:Garden Route District Municipality Шаблон:Municipalities of the Western Cape
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