Election geography

Voting stations

Every station on the record, by election: the stations the IEC’s 2021 results name, and the stations of the IEC’s published 2026 lists once they are approved. A voting-district number that appears in both years is a lead, not proof that the station is the same place: premises are renamed, moved and redrawn between elections.

2026 stations published: 0
Stations mapped: 0
2026 wards: 4 484
2026 voting districts: 23 292

2026 local electionsThe IEC's published 2026 voting-station lists: each station with its ward, voting district and address as printed. The lists publish no coordinates.

No 2026 station list is published on Mandate SA yet.

The IEC’s published 2026 lists are checked before they appear here, and they need the 2026 election on the record first. Until then, the 2026 wards and voting districts below show the new geography, and the 2021 stations stay listed as they were.

2026 wards and voting districts

Municipality

Choose a municipality to see its 2026 wards.

Then choose a ward to see its voting districts. The areas are the Municipal Demarcation Board’s, as published for the 2026 elections.

The areas appear here as a list once a municipality is chosen.

The 2026 delimitation takes effect at the 2026 elections; the 2021 wards stay the geography in force until then. A voting district that crosses a ward line is shown as one area per ward. Stations are not placed on this map: no source publishes their coordinates.

Where a station is

MappedAt coordinates the source publishes.
Address onlyThe source prints an address but no coordinates, so the station is not placed on a map.
No location publishedThe source publishes neither an address nor coordinates for this station.

No published source gives station coordinates yet, so no station is mapped. A position is never worked out from an address, a ward or a voting-district area: many addresses name only a village and a town.

How the years connect

The IEC’s voting-district number is the only key the two years share. A 2026 station is related to a 2021 station only when the number is exactly the same, and the relation is labelled for what it is: the same name, a different name (renamed or moved — the list cannot say which), or a number new in 2026. Nothing is merged, and a similar name is never treated as a match.

The 2026 wards and voting districts are the Municipal Demarcation Board’s, dated 4 November 2026. They take effect at the 2026 elections; the 2021 wards remain the geography in force until then. Sources and licences.