The 2016 local elections are on their way and, well, don’t you want to know how your local government representatives fair compared to the rest of the country in the hopes of making a better-informed decision? I mean, it won’t hurt you (and I do hope you are all voting. Even if you don’t support a party, a blank vote is just as effective).

Using various data sources, the index was compiled by looking at 234 local metropolitan municipalities and assessing them across 15 different criteria split into three main groups, namely administration, economic development and service delivery.

Not surprisingly, nine of the top 10 municipalities are run by the Democratic Alliance with all 17 of the party’s municipalities appearing in the top 40.

The bottom 10 municipalities are all ANC-run, with a showing from one IFP and one NFP-run municipality.

Executive director of the Good Governance Africa – who compiled the data –  Dr Alain Tschudin, said that DA municipalities generally performed well across all three performance clusters.

With regard to service delivery, the DA’s highlights include refuse removal, water, sanitation and provision of electricity. In administration, its highlights are municipal capacity and financial soundness…In economic development, the DA did well in terms of the poverty and unemployment indicators.

It is suspected that the findings will bolster the DA’s popularity, especially in hotly-contested districts such as Nelson Mandela Bay, the City of Tshwane and the City of Johannesburg.

15 of the top 20 municipalities are in the Western Cape, while half of the 20 worst-run municipalities are in the Eastern Cape (followed by seven in KwaZulu Natal, two in Limpopo and one in North West Province).

Check it out:

Top 20

Bottom 20:

[source: businesstech]