| Settlement Type: | Local municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Northern Cape |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | ZF Mgcawu |
| Seat: | Upington |
| Government Type: | Municipal council |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 44231 |
| Population Total: | 100497 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | SAST |
| Utc Offset1: | +2 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank Info Sec1: | NC087 |
Dawid Kruiper Municipality (af|Dawid Kruiper Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality within the ZF Mgcawu District Municipality, in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It was established after the August 2016 local elections by merging the Mier and //Khara Hais local municipalities.[2] The municipality is named after the San politician Dawid Kruiper.
See main article: Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality elections. The municipal council consists of thirty-three members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Seventeen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in seven wards, while the remaining sixteen 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) won a majority of eighteen seats on the council.[3] [4] [5]
The following table shows the results of the election.
| Dawid Kruiper local election, 1 November 2021 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||||||
| Ward | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total | ||
| 17,470 | 17,262 | 34,732 | 55.1% | 14 | 4 | 18 | ||
| 10,991 | 11,169 | 22,160 | 35.2% | 3 | 9 | 12 | ||
| 927 | 1,017 | 1,944 | 3.1% | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 786 | 771 | 1,557 | 2.5% | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 523 | 556 | 1,079 | 1.7% | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 305 | 365 | 670 | 1.1% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 166 | 168 | 334 | 0.5% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 147 | 123 | 270 | 0.4% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 72 | 68 | 140 | 0.2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 63 | – | 63 | 0.1% | 0 | – | 0 | ||
| 15 | 28 | 43 | 0.1% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 31,465 | 31,527 | 62,992 | 17 | 16 | 33 | ||
| Valid votes | 31,465 | 31,527 | 62,992 | 98.4% | ||||
| Spoilt votes | 490 | 555 | 1,045 | 1.6% | ||||
| Total votes cast | 31,955 | 32,082 | 64,037 | |||||
| Voter turnout | 32,259 | |||||||
| Registered voters | 59,509 | |||||||
| Turnout percentage | 54.2% | |||||||