The Govan Mbeki Local Municipality is a Local Municipality in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The council consists of sixty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-two councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-two wards, while the remaining thirty-one 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 African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority, but remained the largest party, winning twenty-six seats.
The following table shows the composition of the council after past elections.
The following table shows the results of the 2000 election.
The following table shows the results of the 2006 election.
The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.
The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.
The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period between the elections in August 2016 and November 2021.
In a by-election held on 9 October 2019, a ward previously held by a DA councillor was won by the ANC candidate. The council was reconfigured as seen below:
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.
The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period since the election in November 2021.
On 28 February 2024, the uMkhonto we Sizwe party contested its first election outside KwaZulu-Natal, finishing second on 28% behind the ANC on 51%.