| Raymond Mhlaba | |
| Settlement Type: | Local municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Eastern Cape |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Amathole |
| Seat: | Fort Beaufort |
| Government Type: | Municipal council |
| Leader Party: | ANC |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Bandile Ketelo |
| Leader Title1: | Speaker |
| Leader Name1: | Anele Ntsangani (ANC) |
| Leader Title2: | Chief Whip |
| Leader Name2: | Lindelwa Penisi (ANC) |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 6358 |
| Population Total: | 151379 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | SAST |
| Utc Offset1: | +2 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank Info Sec1: | EC129 |
Raymond Mhlaba Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala wase Raymond Mhlaba; Afrikaans: Raymond Mhlaba Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It was established after the August 2016 local elections by merging the Nkonkobe and Nxuba local municipalities.[2]
See main article: Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality elections. 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 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-three seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.[3]