400 FPTP seat South Africa

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I have edited all district descriptions to include, if they are not counterminous with local municipality (or a set of local municipalities) a precise summation of the wards within their borders. This should make it easier for anyone to do anything QGIS-related with them.

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Matatiele: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 25
Kinira: 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24 in Umzimvubu; 5, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26 in Matatiele
Umzimvubu: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27

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King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality has 37 wards, and three districts. Two will be composed of twelve, and one will be formed from thirteen.
The southernmost district is named for the birthplace of Nelson Mandela, the northernmost one is given a name meaning "river border" in Xhosa in reference to its geography (being bound on both its western and eastern borders by rivers), and the most urban seat is named after the Xhosa-language name for the city it centers on.
All the constituency names are in Xhosa and this area is pretty much the core of the traditional heartland of the Xhosa people. It used to be part of the Transkei bantustan.
Mtat: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 30, 37
Umda womlambo: 1, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
yiQunu: 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 36, 38

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Six local municipalities in Eastern Cape have two districts to themselves. This is the first batch.


Enoch Mgijima. 34 wards, two seats, seventeen wards per district
Komani: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17
Sada: 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34


Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. 32 wards, two seats, sixteen wards per district
Bizana: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 26, 27, 30, 31
Pondoland eMpuma: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 32


Inguza Hill. Same deal as W. 32/2=16.
Flagstaff: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 29, 30, 31
Lusikisiki: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32

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All districts in Eastern Cape have been drawn.

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Second batch of two-seat local municipalities.


Nyandeni. 32 wards, two districts. 16 each.
Pondoland eNtshona: 6, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32
Sibangweni: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 27, 29, 31


Mbashe. 32 wards, 2 seats. 16 wards each.
Dutywa: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 32
Mbashe: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 25, 27, 30, 31


Mnquma. 32 wards, 16 per district.
Buttersworth: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Kobonqaba: 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

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All that's left from Eastern Cape is its fifteen districts that all have at least one local municipality to themselves.

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Graaff-Reinet: Dr Beyers Naudé and Blue Crane Route local municipalities
Krommerivier: Kou-Kamma and Kouga local municipalities
yiMakhanda: Sundays River Valley and Makana local municipalities
Port Alfred: Ndlambe and Ngqushwa local municipalities
iBhofolo: Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality
Middelburg: Inxuba Yethemba and Walter Sisulu local municipalities
Nonesi: Emalahleni Local Municipality
Senqu: Senqu Local Municipality
Qamata: Sakhisizwe and Intsika Yethu local municipalities
Stutterheim: Amahlathi and Great Kei local municipalities

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Tlokoeng: Elundini Local Municipality
Engcobo: Engcobo Local Municipality
iTsitsa: Mhlontlo Local Municipality
Ntabankulu: Ntabankulu Local Municipality
Port St Johns: Port St Johns Local Municipality

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Eastern Cape
Almost 30 percent of seats in the province come from Port Elizabeth and Buffalo City.
I would not be surprised if Eastern Cape has the largest number of single-member local municipalities. But as of the moment it's unclear if that will be so.

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Ex-Cape Province is done. Onto ex-Orange Free State. Free State has 19 seats. None of them cross District Municipality borders and only one crosses local municipality borders to take just a part of it thereof.

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There are five seats nested in Mangaung Local Municipality. Three are based in Bloemfontein proper.

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(1 一) Mangaung Botjhabela (Botjhabela=East in Sesotho)
4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 16, 45, 46, 47

(2 二) Mangaung Bophirimela (Bophirimela=West in Sesotho)
1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 19
 
(3 三) Bloemfontein-Noord
18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 44, 48

(4 四) Rustfontein
17, 27, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 49, 50, 51

(5 五) Botshabelo
28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38

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Virginia: Masilonyana Local Municipality+Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 in Matjhabeng Local Municipality
Matjhabeng: Wards 8, 10, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 27, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
Thabong: Wards 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31

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Maluti-a-Phofong Local Municipality has three districts. Its split between Zulu and Southern Sotho/Sesotho speakers is something like 40-54 and the more Zulu northern parts get a Zulu constituency name.


(1 一) Phuthaditjaba Bophirimela (Bophirimela=West in Sesotho)
7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33

(2 二) Phuthaditjaba Borwa (Borwa=South in Sesotho)
10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 30, 31

(3 三) Phuthaditjaba Enyakatho-Harrismith (Enyakatho=North in Zulu)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 22, 24, 32, 34, 35

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All other districts within the borders of the former Orange Free State are compromised of full local municipalities.

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Xhariep: Xhariep District Municipality
Bothaville: Nala, Tswelopele, and Tokologo local municipalities
Ficksburg: Mantsopa and Setsoto local municipalities
Bethlehem: Dihlabeng Local Municipality
Noka ya Wilge*: Nketoana, Phumelela, and Mafube Local Municipality
Kroonstad: Moqhaka Local Municipality
Parys: Ngwathe Local Municipality
Ka Borwa Ho Vaal**: Metsimaholo Local Municipality
*=Wilge River in Sesotho
**="South of the Vaal" in Sesotho

It turns out I had to have a district crossing into Fezile Dabi District Municipality after all.

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When all of KwaZulu-Natal is done an all-but-Transvaal map will be posted. Transvaal has 197 of 400 seats.

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Free State

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Districts have been drawn for eThekwini (home to Durban, to the point I'm informally called it, as a singular unit, Durban).

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Durban has 111 wards and 28 districts. This means that every district is compromised of four wards, except for one singular district that must be formed from three.
There are many English constituency names here, befitting its position as one of the main centers for English speakers in South Africa.

(1 一) eMkhomazi: 96, 98, 99, 105
(2 二) Mpumalanga: 6, 7, 91, 100
(3 三) Outer West Durban: 1, 4, 5, 103
(4 四) Ikadi Enyakatho: 2, 3, 53, 59
(5 五) Verulam North: 58, 60, 61, 62
(6 六) Malagazi: 67, 94, 97, 109
(7 七) Umlazi Entshonalanga: 78, 83, 84, 95
(8 八) Chatsworth West: 72, 73, 77, 111
(9 九) Klaarwater: 12, 13, 14, 17
(10 十) Umbilo: 10, 15, 16, 18
(11 十一) Iqadi Eningizimu: 8, 9, 44, 108
(12 十二) Inanda: 42, 55, 56, 57
(13 十三) Verulam South: 50, 51, 102, 106
(14 十四) Isipongo: 76, 89, 90, 93
(15 十五) Umlazi Eningizimu: 85, 86, 87, 88
(16 十六) Umlazi Enyakatho: 79, 81, 82
(17 十七) Chatsworth North: 63, 65, 70, 71
(18 十八) Queensburgh: 24, 29, 33, 101
(19 十八) Clare: 23, 25, 30, 92
(20 二十) Clermont: 19, 20, 21, 22
(21 二十一) KwaMushu: 38, 41, 43, 45
(22 二十二) Piesang: 46, 47, 104, 107
(23 二十三) Pheonix: 48, 49, 52, 54
(24 二十四) Umlazi-Montclair: 64, 69, 74, 80
(25 二十五) Newlands: 11, 37, 39, 40
(26 二十六) Durban Harbour South: 32, 66, 68, 75
(27 二十七) Durban Harbour North-Berea: 26, 27, 28, 31
(28 二十八) Durban North: 34, 35, 36, 110
In Zulu: Enyakatho=North, Entshonalanga=West, Eningizimu=South

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Jozini Local Municipality was just a bit too large to fall within population limits for having a seat all to itself (unlike Umhlabuyalingana right next door). It has, alongside Big Five Hlabusa and Mtubatuba local municipalities, four seats in total.
Interestingly, KwaZulu-Natal's population of 12,423,907, divided by 80, results in a quota of 155,299. These three local municipalities have 546,744, which is 3.5208 quotas.
One district will take 16 of 23 wards from Jozini. Another takes 14 of 24 wards from Mtubatuba. Two districts go from Big Five Hlabisa outwards. One takes the remaining ten wards of Mtubatuba and six or seven (out of 15) from Big Five Hlabisa. The remaining eight (or nine) go into a seat that takes in the rest of Jozini as well.

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Sheluma Gata: 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23 in Jozini
Jozini-Mthekwini: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 20, 21 in Jozini; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 in Big Five Hlabisa
Hluhluwe-iMfolozi: 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 in Big Five Hlabisa; 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 in Mtubatuba
KwaMsane: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 21, 22, 23 in Mtubatuba

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The most populous local municipality outside eThekwini (Durban) within the boundaries of KwaZulu-Natal is Msunduzi Local Municipality, home to Pietermaritzburg. It has five districts to itself.

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Pietermaritzburg, 41 wards, one district with nine wards, four with eight.

Pietermaritzburg North: 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 38
uMgungundlovu Eningizimu: 13, 18, 24, 27, 33, 36, 37, 41
Edendale Enyakatho: 1, 2, 12, 20, 21, 23, 26, 40
Edendale Eningizimu: 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22
Msunduzi: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 39