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.
Ward ballot: results
Elects each ward's councillor.
| Party or contestant (as listed) | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS | 5 040 752 | 58,9% |
| DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE | 1 877 918 | 21,9% |
| INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY | 781 941 | 9,1% |
| UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT | 205 251 | 2,4% |
| Independent candidates (combined) | 185 810 | 2,2% |
| PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA | 105 898 | 1,2% |
| AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY | 92 512 | 1,1% |
| UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY | 83 318 | 1,0% |
| MINORITY FRONT | 28 564 | 0,3% |
| AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION | 18 573 | 0,2% |
| DIKWANKWETLA PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA | 9 031 | 0,1% |
| XIMOKO PARTY | 8 718 | 0,1% |
| Others (64 together) | 126 481 | 1,5% |
Show all 76 parties and contestants
Key figures
- Valid votes
- 8 564 767
- Turnout
- 47,5%
- Votes cast
- 8 752 223
- Spoilt votes
- 187 456
- Registered voters
- 18 432 610
- Ballots
- 3 754
Compare with another local Government election
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
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYUNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTIndependent candidates (combined)PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAAFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY
| Province | Valid votes | Turnout | NOORDWES FORUM | Most votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Cape | 1 321 180 | 53,5% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 72,1% |
| Free State | 587 766 | 49,0% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 71,7% |
| Gauteng | 1 855 632 | 43,2% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 58,7% |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 1 587 740 | 46,5% | – | INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY 45,3% |
| Limpopo | 715 406 | 41,6% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 79,9% |
| Mpumalanga | 606 403 | 44,1% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 79,0% |
| North West | 543 700 | 44,3% | 0,6% | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 69,5% |
| Northern Cape | 245 621 | 57,5% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 63,6% |
| Western Cape | 1 101 319 | 57,7% | – | DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE 50,5% |
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About this record
Coverage, limitations, source issues and how the figures were checked
What the record holds
- Loaded: 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 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.
- 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.
Historical context
- The first local government elections after the 1998 demarcation established today's system of metropolitan, local and district municipalities.
Source issues
- 280 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
| Document | Role | Retrieved | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEC 2000 Local Government Elections — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV) | Results data | 8 October 2026 | 179d7258d66730d0… |
Turnout 47,5%