Greater Taung Local Municipality
Greater Taung Local Municipality is a local municipality in Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa. The Seat of local municipality is Taung.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:| Place | Code | Area | Population | Most spoken language |
| Bathlaping Ba Ga Maidi | 483.38 | 26,424 | Tswana | |
| Bathlaping Ba Ga Mothibi | 811.50 | 30,810 | Tswana | |
| Bathlaping Ba Ga Phuduhutswana | 1,193.50 | 107,870 | Tswana | |
| Batlhaping Ba Ga Phudutswana | 2.76 | 3,337 | Tswana | |
| Boipelo | 3.81 | 3,568 | Tswana | |
| Motsweding | 9.55 | 3,255 | Tswana | |
| Pudimoe | 2.80 | 3,718 | Tswana | |
| Reivilo | 27.28 | 21 | Tswana | |
| Remainder of the municipality | 3,106.08 | 3,159 | Tswana |
Politics
The municipal council consists of forty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Twenty-four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-four wards, while the remaining twenty-four 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 3 August 2016 the African National Congress won a majority of thirty-four seats on the council.The following table shows the results of the election.