2006 Local Government Elections
Held on 1 March 2006. 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 | 6 315 074 | 64,1% |
| DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE | 1 595 742 | 16,2% |
| INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY | 740 135 | 7,5% |
| Independent candidates (combined) | 263 991 | 2,7% |
| INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS | 204 846 | 2,1% |
| AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY | 122 478 | 1,2% |
| PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA | 108 741 | 1,1% |
| UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT | 100 352 | 1,0% |
| VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS | 92 039 | 0,9% |
| UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY | 55 604 | 0,6% |
| MINORITY FRONT | 42 255 | 0,4% |
| NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION | 31 569 | 0,3% |
| Others (82 together) | 184 248 | 1,9% |
Show all 94 parties and contestants
Key figures
- Valid votes
- 9 857 074
- Turnout
- 47,9%
- Votes cast
- 10 048 858
- Spoilt votes
- 191 784
- Registered voters
- 20 976 191
- Ballots
- 3 895
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No map for this election
By province
Provinces as named on polling day
| Province | Valid votes | Turnout | AFRICAN CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE-AFRIKANER CHRISTEN ALLIANSIE | Most votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Cape | 1 562 673 | 55,5% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 79,6% |
| Free State | 609 540 | 47,3% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 75,4% |
| Gauteng | 1 990 032 | 42,2% | 0,1% | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 61,5% |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 1 934 270 | 49,9% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 46,9% |
| Limpopo | 944 839 | 44,8% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 82,6% |
| Mpumalanga | 700 853 | 46,4% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 78,4% |
| North West | 690 323 | 45,7% | 0,2% | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 74,2% |
| Northern Cape | 270 127 | 53,5% | – | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 69,5% |
| Western Cape | 1 154 417 | 51,3% | – | DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE 39,5% |
Coverage and comparability
What this election's record holds, the delimitation its areas sit on, and which elections it may be compared with
By ballot
- Municipal PR ballot
- Ward ballot
Boundaries and comparisons
Areas of the 2006 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.
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: 3895 wards of the 2006 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 2006 wards. Ward codes were reissued at each delimitation, so a 2006 ward is not the 2021 ward with the same number and is not drawn on today's map.
Source issues
- 6 line(s) have a garbled registered-voters field next to a party name with an unquoted comma; the voting district's figure is taken from its other lines.
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 2006 Local Government Elections — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV) | Results data | 8 October 2026 | 42785a46247f1bad… |
Turnout 47,9%