Lepelle-Nkumpi
Local municipality
Seal
Location in Limpopo
Coordinates: 24°15′S 29°40′E / 24.250°S 29.667°E / -24.250; 29.667
Country	South Africa
Province	Limpopo
District	Capricorn
Seat	Lebowakgomo
Wards	29
Government [1]
• Type	Municipal council
• Mayor	Meriam Molala
Area
• Total	3,463 km2 (1,337 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	230,350
• Density	67/km2 (170/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	99.6%
• Coloured	0.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.1%
• White	0.1%
First languages (2011) [2]
• Northern Sotho	86.9%
• Southern Ndebele	4.6%
• Tsonga	3.8%
• Other	4.7%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Municipal code	LIM355

Lepelle-Nkumpi Municipality (Northern Sotho: Mmasepala wa Lepelle-Nkumpi) is a local municipality within the Capricorn District Municipality, in the Limpopo province of South Africa. The seat is Lebowakgomo.

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:^[3]

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty wards, while the remaining thirty 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 (ANC) won a majority of forty seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.^[4][5]