Mtubatuba Municipality () is a local municipality within the Umkhanyakude District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It is named after one of the longest serving Zulu chief, Nkosi Mtubatuba (1855-1955).
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
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.