2011 Local Government Elections
Held on 18 May 2011. 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 | 8 143 541 | 61,0% |
| DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE | 3 177 884 | 23,8% |
| INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY | 478 400 | 3,6% |
| NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY | 326 565 | 2,4% |
| Independent candidates (combined) | 302 243 | 2,3% |
| CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE | 274 079 | 2,1% |
| AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY | 86 865 | 0,7% |
| UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT | 83 728 | 0,6% |
| VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS | 66 588 | 0,5% |
| PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA | 63 825 | 0,5% |
| MINORITY FRONT | 60 153 | 0,5% |
| AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION | 38 159 | 0,3% |
| Others (108 together) | 251 957 | 1,9% |
Show all 120 parties and contestants
Key figures
- Valid votes
- 13 353 987
- Turnout
- 57,4%
- Votes cast
- 13 589 001
- Spoilt votes
- 235 014
- Registered voters
- 23 654 347
- Ballots
- 4 277
Compare with another local Government election
No map for this election
Boundary geometry for the areas of 2011 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 PARTYNATIONAL FREEDOM PARTYIndependent candidates (combined)CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLEAFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT
| Province | Valid votes | Turnout | Independent candidates (combined) | Most votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Cape | 1 763 225 | 57,9% | 3,8% | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 70,4% |
| Free State | 749 180 | 55,1% | 1,1% | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 70,5% |
| Gauteng | 3 058 657 | 55,6% | 1,3% | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 58,8% |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 2 800 857 | 61,4% | 1,9% | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 55,8% |
| Limpopo | 1 150 024 | 50,0% | 5,7% | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 78,5% |
| Mpumalanga | 940 177 | 55,7% | 2,3% | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 76,9% |
| North West | 818 836 | 53,2% | 2,7% | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 72,7% |
| Northern Cape | 355 428 | 63,3% | 1,5% | AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 62,4% |
| Western Cape | 1 717 603 | 64,2% | 1,1% | DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE 57,3% |
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 2011 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: 4277 wards of the 2011 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 2011 wards. Ward codes were reissued at each delimitation, so a 2011 ward is not the 2021 ward with the same number and is not drawn on today's map.
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.
- Reconciled with the IEC's results report (IEC Local Government Elections 2011 — Results Summary, All Ballots, all provinces (PDF), results as at 2011/05/27 11:25:25): all 123 figures compared (each party's votes per province and in total; valid, spoilt and cast votes and registered voters) agree exactly.
- Reconciled with the IEC's national results summary: ward-ballot valid votes agree exactly (13 353 987 in the file; votes cast less spoilt in the summary: 13 353 987); independent candidates agree.
Sources
The official files behind these results
| Document | Role | Retrieved | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEC 2011 Local Government Elections — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV) | Results data | 8 October 2026 | 19e54362f18b270d… |
| IEC Local Government Elections 2011 — Results Summary, All Ballots, all provinces (PDF) | Results report | 8 October 2026 | 14900034c8340dcc… |
Turnout 57,4%