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This is a list of members of the sixth Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature, as elected in the election of 8 May 2019 and taking into account changes in membership since the election. [1] The legislative session dissolved on 28 May 2024 ahead of the 2024 national and provincial elections and was succeeded by the 7th legislature.
The Provincial Legislature consists of 30 members, who are elected through a system of party list proportional representation with closed lists.In other words, each voter casts a vote for one political party, and seats in the legislature are allocated to the parties in proportion to the number of votes received.
This is a list of members of the fifth Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature, as elected in the election of 7 May 2014.The African National Congress (ANC) retained a comfortable majority of 24 seats in the legislature but, for the first time since the legislature was established in 1994, its majority was diminished from the previous legislative session.
Since 2018, Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane, a member of the African National Congress, has held the office of the premier of Mpumalanga. [2] The premier appoints ten members of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature to be on the Executive Council. [3]
The election for the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature is held every five years, simultaneously with the election of the National Assembly; the last such election occurred on 29 May 2024. At the first meeting of the provincial legislature after an election, the members choose the premier from amongst themselves.
It was renamed Mpumalanga in 1999. It is conterminous with the province of Mpumalanga. The constituency currently elects 15 of the 400 members of the National Assembly using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 general election it had 1,951,776 registered electors.
The New National Party and United Democratic Movement lost the seats they had held in the prior legislature. When the legislature convened for its first session on 26 April 2004, the ANC's Thabang Makwetla was elected as the third Premier of Mpumalanga. [2] He opened his term with a major reshuffle of the Mpumalanga Executive Council. [3]
Pages in category "Members of the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .