The Breede Valley Local Municipality council consists of forty-one members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-one wards, while the remaining twenty 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 Democratic Alliance (DA) obtained a plurality of nineteen seats on the council.
Results The following table shows the composition of the council after past elections.
Event ANC DA BO Other Total 2000 election 17 17 3 0 37 2002 floor-crossing 19 11 2 5 37 2004 floor-crossing 24 12 1 0 37 2006 election 18 13 1 7 39 2007 floor-crossing 17 13 1 8 39 2011 election 14 22 2 3 41 2016 election 12 22 4 3 41 2021 election 10 19 4 8 41
December 2000 election
The following table shows the results of the 2000 election.
By-elections from December 2000 to October 2002 The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period between the election in December 2000 and the floor crossing period in October 2002.
Date Ward Party of the previous councillor Party of the newly elected councillor 15 September 2001 1 28 November 2001 2
October 2002 floor crossing
In terms of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution and the judgment of the Constitutional Court in United Democratic Movement v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others, in the period from 8–22 October 2002 councillors had the opportunity to cross the floor to a different political party without losing their seats. In the Breede Valley council, four councillors from the Democratic Alliance (DA) crossed to the New National Party (NNP), which had formerly been part of the DA, and one councillor crossed from the DA to "Breedevallei Onafhanklik" (BO). One councillor crossed from BO to the African National Congress (ANC) and one crossed from BO to the NNP.
Party Seats before Net change Seats after 18 1 19 16 5 11 — 5 5 3 1 2
By-elections from October 2002 to August 2004 The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period between the floor crossing periods in October 2002 and September 2004.
Date Ward Party of the previous councillor Party of the newly elected councillor 7 May 2003 18 Elected uncontested as no other candidates were nominated. 27 July 2004 10 The former councillor was elected for the Democratic Alliance but had since crossed the floor to Breedevallei Onafhanklik.
September 2004 floor crossing Another floor-crossing period occurred on 1–15 September 2004, in which four of the NNP councillors crossed to the ANC and one NNP councillor crossed to the DA. Party Seats before Net change Seats after 20 4 24 11 1 12 5 5 0 1 0 1
March 2006 election
The following table shows the results of the 2006 election.
September 2007 floor crossing The final floor-crossing period occurred on 1–15 September 2007; floor-crossing was subsequently abolished in 2008 by the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution. In the Breede Valley council, four councillors crossed from the Independent Democrats (ID) to the new National People's Party, two councillors left the African National Congress (ANC) to sit as independents, and the existing independent councillor joined the ANC.
Party Seats before Net change Seats after 18 1 17 13 0 13 — 4 4 1 1 2 5 4 1 1 0 1 1 0 1
By-elections from September 2007 to May 2011 The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period between the floor crossing period in September 2007 and the election in May 2011.
Date Ward Party of the previous councillor Party of the newly elected councillor 10 December 2008 3 The former councillor was re-elected to the ward as an independent. 5 16 17 24 June 2009 15 14 October 2009 11 The former councillor was elected for the African National Congress but had since crossed the floor to sit as an independent. 24 March 2010 10
May 2011 election
The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.
August 2016 election
The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.
The local council sends five representatives to the council of the Cape Winelands District Municipality: three from the Democratic Alliance and one each from the African National Congress and Breedevallei Onafhanklik.
By-elections from August 2016 to November 2021 The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period between the elections in August 2016 and November 2021.
Date Ward Party of the previous councillor Party of the newly elected councillor 24 April 2018 10 24 October 2018 3
November 2021 election
The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.
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