Blue Crane Route Municipality (Xhosa: uMasipala wase Blue Crane Route; Afrikaans: Bloukraanroete Munisipaliteit) is a local municipality within the Sarah Baartman District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The municipality is named after the South African national bird, the blue crane.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Place	Code	Population	Most spoken language
Bongweni	20202	3,776	Xhosa
Cookhouse	20203	1,415	Xhosa
Khayanisho	20204	1,448	Xhosa
KwaNojoli	20205	8,132	Xhosa
Pearston	20206	2,596	Afrikaans
Petersburg	29103	39	Afrikaans
Somerset East	20207	8,456	Xhosa
Remainder of the municipality	20201	9,196	Xhosa

Politics

The municipal council consists of eleven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Six councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in six wards, while the remaining five 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 six seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election

Party		Ward			List			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	African National Congress	5,223	56.25	4	5,260	56.50	2	6
	Democratic Alliance	3,455	37.21	2	3,450	37.06	2	4
	Economic Freedom Fighters	582	6.27	0	575	6.18	1	1
	African Transformation Movement	6	0.06	0	25	0.27	0	0
	Independent candidates	20	0.22	0				0
Total		9,286	100.00	6	9,310	100.00	5	11
Valid votes		9,286	98.73		9,310	98.75
Invalid/blank votes		119	1.27		118	1.25
Total votes		9,405	100.00		9,428	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		17,867	52.64		17,867	52.77

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