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2000 Local Government Elections

Held on 5 December 2000. Results by municipal area, summed from the IEC's voting-district results. No boundary geometry is held for this election's areas, so its results are shown as tables.

Municipal PR ballot: results

Every voter's proportional representation ballot for their municipal council.

2000 Local Government Elections — Municipal PR ballotShare of valid votes, all 237 municipal PR ballots together; sums of 14 871 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS5 208 05859,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE1 938 99122,3%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY794 4959,1%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT234 1982,7%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA115 8271,3%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY103 4401,2%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY85 6971,0%
MINORITY FRONT26 4990,3%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION25 8650,3%
XIMOKO PARTY10 8140,1%
DIKWANKWETLA PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA10 2060,1%
AFRICA MUSLIM PARTY8 0560,1%
Others (66 together)128 9331,5%
Show all 78 parties and contestants
All 78 parties and contestantsShare of valid votes, all 237 municipal PR ballots together; sums of 14 871 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS5 208 05859,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE1 938 99122,3%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY794 4959,1%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT234 1982,7%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA115 8271,3%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY103 4401,2%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY85 6971,0%
MINORITY FRONT26 4990,3%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION25 8650,3%
XIMOKO PARTY10 8140,1%
DIKWANKWETLA PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA10 2060,1%
AFRICA MUSLIM PARTY8 0560,1%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS7 4360,1%
ALLIANCE 2000+6 8210,1%
VISION- VISIE 2000+6 0180,1%
SIMUNYE IN CHRIST ORGANISATION5 4860,1%
DABALORIVHUWA PATRIOTIC FRONT5 4470,1%
DAVEYTON COMMUNITY PEACE COMMITTEE4 5670,1%
EAST RAND FORUM/OOSRAND FORUM4 5650,1%
DISPLACEES RATE-PAYERS ASSOCIATION4 4790,1%
NOORDWES FORUM4 1640,0%
INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA3 8900,0%
ALLIANCE FOR THE COMMUNITY3 8610,0%
THE GREEN PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA3 3080,0%
POSTMASBURG-OLIFANTSHOEK RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION3 0180,0%
KNYSNA COMMUNITY FORUM2 7370,0%
ACTION INDEPENDENT PEOPLES PARTY2 5340,0%
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY2 5060,0%
HOËVELDRIF INWONERS VERENIGING2 4810,0%
BREEDEVALLEI ONAFHANKLIK2 3860,0%
MODERATE INDEPENDENT PARTY2 3290,0%
POTCHEFSTROOM INWONERSVERENIGING2 2590,0%
THEMBISA CONCERNED RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION2 2140,0%
GEORGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVE/GEORGE GEMEENSKAPSINISIATIEF2 1370,0%
ALLIANSIE NOORD2 0690,0%
DIE MAQUASSI HILLS/RANTE GEMEENSKAPSVERENIGING1 9540,0%
THE CAPE PEOPLES CONGRESS1 9040,0%
BARKLY WEST TASK TEAM1 9020,0%
THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AZANIA1 6770,0%
ECOPEACE1 5990,0%
ALLIANCE OF ASSOCIATED RESIDENTS OF KZ2211 5530,0%
WITZENBERG ONAFHANKLIKE VERENIGING1 5520,0%
RATEPAYERS AND RESIDENTS PARTY SIMUNYE1 4440,0%
ASCORA1 3580,0%
NATIONAL UNITED PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION1 3370,0%
CIVIC ALLIANSIE/ALLIANCE1 3300,0%
GREATER BRITS CIVIC ORGANISATION1 2410,0%
INWONERS-/CITIZENS' FORUM1 1750,0%
OUDTSHOORN AKSIE 20001 1740,0%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION EFFICIENCY AND AFFIRMATIVE MOVEMENT1 1510,0%
GEMINI MOVEMENT1 0860,0%
ZIBAMBELENI DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION1 0760,0%
JANSENVILLE KLIPPLAAT ALLIANSIE1 0460,0%
THABANORTH INWONERSVERENIGING1 0450,0%
CHRISTEN PROTESTANTE PARTY VAN SUIDER AFRIKA1 0350,0%
BOHLOKONG CIVIC ASSOCIATION1 0270,0%
BELASTINGBETALERSVERENIGING1 0120,0%
MIDDELBURG RESIDENTS ORGANISATION9810,0%
COMMUNITY INITIATIVE/GEMEENSKAP INISIATIEF9710,0%
HIGHVELD RESIDENTS CONCERNED PARTY9450,0%
PEOPLE'S FORUM9250,0%
HELDERBERG COMMUNITY CIVIC ORGANIZATION8690,0%
WORKERS PARTY8660,0%
AKSIE EENHEID BELASTINGBETALERS/ACTION UNITY RATEPAYERS8580,0%
MOSSELBAAI GEMEENSKAPSFORUM8060,0%
VERENIGDE GEMEENSKAP ORGANISASIE6480,0%
ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENTS MIDVAAL6260,0%
UNITED INDEPENDENT FRONT5220,0%
KAYAMANDI COMMUNITY ALLIANCE5150,0%
ABOLITION OF INCOME TAX AND USURY PARTY4890,0%
KOUGA 20004590,0%
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL ALLIANCE4350,0%
REGTE PARTY/RIGHT PARTY4130,0%
DUBE CIVIC ORGANISATION4080,0%
ABBOTSDALE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FORUM/ABBOTSDALE GEMEENSKAP2680,0%
SAKHILE-TOGETHER2270,0%
AFRICA WOMEN AND YOUTH PARTY1790,0%
VUKANI UTRECHT RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION1330,0%

Key figures

Municipal PR ballot · 2000

Valid votes
8 691 079
Turnout
48,1%
Votes cast
8 882 734
Spoilt votes
191 655
Registered voters
18 477 932
Ballots
237

Compare with another local Government election

2000 and 2006

Only elections of the same type are compared.

No map for this election

Boundary geometry for the areas of 2000 is not held. Areas change between elections, so these results are never drawn on today's boundaries; they are listed by area below.

By province

Provinces as named on polling day

Show share of:AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYUNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTPAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAAFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYMINORITY FRONT
2000 Local Government Elections — Municipal PR ballot — by provinceValid votes, turnout and party shares per province
ProvinceValid votesTurnoutGEMINI MOVEMENTMost votes
Eastern Cape3 078 voting districts summed1 392 59356,0%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 74,1%
Free State1 060 voting districts summed589 13249,1%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 72,5%
Gauteng1 977 voting districts summed1 854 96343,2%0,1%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 59,4%
KwaZulu-Natal3 315 voting districts summed1 600 44946,7%–INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY 45,5%
Limpopo1 792 voting districts summed728 90242,5%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 80,4%
Mpumalanga1 016 voting districts summed617 82544,8%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 80,5%
North West1 019 voting districts summed550 57044,8%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 72,1%
Northern Cape356 voting districts summed248 05357,6%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 64,3%
Western Cape1 258 voting districts summed1 108 59257,9%–DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE 51,6%

Coverage and comparability

What this election's record holds, the delimitation its areas sit on, and which elections it may be compared with

The whole record

By ballot

  • Municipal PR ballotRecorded237 results
  • Ward ballotPartial3 754 results

Not loaded in this milestone: ward ballots (each ward of this delimitation would need its own place record), the district council (DC 40%) ballots (the file does not name the district a municipality belongs to), and district-management-area ballots. Their voting-district rows are in the official file (SHA-256 recorded). Ward candidates are not named (party-level results file). These are the 2000 wards. Ward codes were reissued at each delimitation, so a 2000 ward is not the 2021 ward with the same number and is not drawn on today's map.

Boundaries and comparisons

Areas of the 2000 municipal delimitation; no boundary geometry is held, so areas are listed by name and code and never drawn on another delimitation's map.

Nationally and by province this election compares with every other local Government election. By municipality: no other election is on the same delimitation, so municipal results are listed per election and never side by side. Wards are compared only within one delimitation.

Compare parties over timePartiesPlaces

About this record

Coverage, limitations, source issues and how the figures were checked

What the record holds

  • Municipal PR ballotLoaded: the proportional representation (PR) ballot of every municipality, as sums of the IEC's voting-district rows for each municipality (the number of voting districts summed is stored with each figure).
  • Municipal areas are those of this election, as the IEC file lists them. No boundary geometry is held for them: results are shown as tables, never drawn on today's boundaries.
  • Ward ballotWard ballots: 3754 wards of the 2000 delimitation, each the sum of its voting districts in the IEC's results file. Ward candidates are not named in the file; every independent candidate in a ward is in one line, "INDEPENDENT", as published.

What it does not hold

  • Not loaded in this milestone: ward ballots (each ward of this delimitation would need its own place record), the district council (DC 40%) ballots (the file does not name the district a municipality belongs to), and district-management-area ballots. Their voting-district rows are in the official file (SHA-256 recorded). Update, 9 October 2026: the ward ballots have since been loaded from the same file (notes below); the district council and district-management-area ballots are still not loaded.
  • Ward ballotThese are the 2000 wards. Ward codes were reissued at each delimitation, so a 2000 ward is not the 2021 ward with the same number and is not drawn on today's map.

Historical context

  • The first local government elections after the 1998 demarcation established today's system of metropolitan, local and district municipalities.

Source issues

  • Ward ballot280 voting-district lines state no votes cast ("NULL"); for their wards, votes cast is valid plus spoilt votes.

How it was read and checked

  • Election date: Polling day as proclaimed in the Government Gazette. The IEC results files do not state the date and the proclamation is not yet among this election's captured documents.

Sources

The official files behind these results

Official documents behind this recordFiles retrieved from the publisher, with their SHA-256 fingerprints
DocumentRoleRetrievedSHA-256
IEC 2000 Local Government Elections — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · 2000-LGE.zip · 1 672 KBResults dataLoaded8 October 2026179d7258d66730d0…

Turnout 48,1%