Mahikeng Municipality is a local municipality within the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, in the North West province of South Africa. Mahikeng is a Setswana word meaning "place of rocks".

Main places

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

Politics

The municipal council consists of sixty-nine members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-five councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-five wards, while the remaining thirty-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 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of forty seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election.