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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.

Ward ballot: results

Elects each ward's councillor.

2000 Local Government Elections — Ward ballotShare of valid votes, all 3 754 ward ballots together; sums of 14 819 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS5 040 75258,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE1 877 91821,9%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY781 9419,1%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT205 2512,4%
Independent candidates (combined)185 8102,2%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA105 8981,2%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY92 5121,1%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY83 3181,0%
MINORITY FRONT28 5640,3%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION18 5730,2%
DIKWANKWETLA PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA9 0310,1%
XIMOKO PARTY8 7180,1%
Others (64 together)126 4811,5%
Show all 76 parties and contestants
All 76 parties and contestantsShare of valid votes, all 3 754 ward ballots together; sums of 14 819 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS5 040 75258,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE1 877 91821,9%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY781 9419,1%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT205 2512,4%
Independent candidates (combined)185 8102,2%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA105 8981,2%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY92 5121,1%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY83 3181,0%
MINORITY FRONT28 5640,3%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION18 5730,2%
DIKWANKWETLA PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA9 0310,1%
XIMOKO PARTY8 7180,1%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS7 9350,1%
ALLIANCE 2000+7 1420,1%
VISION- VISIE 2000+6 5510,1%
AFRICA MUSLIM PARTY6 4840,1%
EAST RAND FORUM/OOSRAND FORUM6 1650,1%
SIMUNYE IN CHRIST ORGANISATION5 0560,1%
ALLIANCE FOR THE COMMUNITY4 6750,1%
INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA4 0520,0%
HOËVELDRIF INWONERS VERENIGING3 6570,0%
NOORDWES FORUM3 4860,0%
DABALORIVHUWA PATRIOTIC FRONT3 4140,0%
DAVEYTON COMMUNITY PEACE COMMITTEE3 1690,0%
DISPLACEES RATE-PAYERS ASSOCIATION3 1610,0%
POSTMASBURG-OLIFANTSHOEK RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION3 0890,0%
POTCHEFSTROOM INWONERSVERENIGING2 7760,0%
ECOPEACE2 6540,0%
ACTION INDEPENDENT PEOPLES PARTY2 5440,0%
BREEDEVALLEI ONAFHANKLIK2 5370,0%
DIE MAQUASSI HILLS/RANTE GEMEENSKAPSVERENIGING2 4680,0%
GEORGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVE/GEORGE GEMEENSKAPSINISIATIEF2 3810,0%
KNYSNA COMMUNITY FORUM1 9580,0%
THE CAPE PEOPLES CONGRESS1 8540,0%
THEMBISA CONCERNED RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION1 8480,0%
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1 7520,0%
ALLIANCE OF ASSOCIATED RESIDENTS OF KZ2211 6980,0%
RATEPAYERS AND RESIDENTS PARTY SIMUNYE1 6680,0%
WITZENBERG ONAFHANKLIKE VERENIGING1 6490,0%
BARKLY WEST TASK TEAM1 5480,0%
MODERATE INDEPENDENT PARTY1 5280,0%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION EFFICIENCY AND AFFIRMATIVE MOVEMENT1 5120,0%
THABANORTH INWONERSVERENIGING1 4730,0%
CIVIC ALLIANSIE/ALLIANCE1 3330,0%
OUDTSHOORN AKSIE 20001 3280,0%
ASCORA1 2790,0%
INWONERS-/CITIZENS' FORUM1 2050,0%
BELASTINGBETALERSVERENIGING1 1490,0%
HIGHVELD RESIDENTS CONCERNED PARTY1 1120,0%
COMMUNITY INITIATIVE/GEMEENSKAP INISIATIEF1 0900,0%
GREATER BRITS CIVIC ORGANISATION1 0860,0%
BOHLOKONG CIVIC ASSOCIATION9670,0%
PEOPLE'S FORUM9600,0%
AKSIE EENHEID BELASTINGBETALERS/ACTION UNITY RATEPAYERS9350,0%
ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENTS MIDVAAL9120,0%
ZIBAMBELENI DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION8850,0%
MOSSELBAAI GEMEENSKAPSFORUM8750,0%
MIDDELBURG RESIDENTS ORGANISATION8640,0%
THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AZANIA7630,0%
VERENIGDE GEMEENSKAP ORGANISASIE7600,0%
THE GREEN PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA7590,0%
NATIONAL UNITED PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION7420,0%
GEMINI MOVEMENT7160,0%
HELDERBERG COMMUNITY CIVIC ORGANIZATION6250,0%
UNITED INDEPENDENT FRONT6020,0%
ALLIANSIE NOORD5730,0%
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL ALLIANCE5280,0%
KOUGA 20004650,0%
KAYAMANDI COMMUNITY ALLIANCE3840,0%
CHRISTEN PROTESTANTE PARTY VAN SUIDER AFRIKA3520,0%
THEMBELIHLE MASIBAMBANE CIVIC ORGANISATION3300,0%
DUBE CIVIC ORGANISATION3150,0%
VUKANI UTRECHT RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION2220,0%
WORKERS PARTY2080,0%
ABBOTSDALE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FORUM/ABBOTSDALE GEMEENSKAP1940,0%
AFRICA WOMEN AND YOUTH PARTY790,0%

Key figures

Ward ballot · 2000

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

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 MOVEMENTIndependent candidates (combined)PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAAFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY
2000 Local Government Elections — Ward ballot — by provinceValid votes, turnout and party shares per province
ProvinceValid votesTurnoutAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSMost votes
Eastern Cape3 057 voting districts summed1 321 18053,5%72,1%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 72,1%
Free State1 060 voting districts summed587 76649,0%71,7%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 71,7%
Gauteng1 977 voting districts summed1 855 63243,2%58,7%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 58,7%
KwaZulu-Natal3 304 voting districts summed1 587 74046,5%35,1%INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY 45,3%
Limpopo1 792 voting districts summed715 40641,6%79,9%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 79,9%
Mpumalanga1 016 voting districts summed606 40344,1%79,0%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 79,0%
North West1 019 voting districts summed543 70044,3%69,5%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 69,5%
Northern Cape350 voting districts summed245 62157,5%63,6%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 63,6%
Western Cape1 244 voting districts summed1 101 31957,7%39,5%DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE 50,5%

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 47,5%