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Buffalo City

50 wards on the 2021 boundaries. Official results of the 2021 Local Government Elections below (the latest verified for this place), with their sources. The latest national and provincial result here is the 2024 National and Provincial Elections.

2024 National and Provincial Elections

29 May 2024 · National ballot · Counted in Buffalo City · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 248 258
Turnout: 59,0%
Registered: 425 087

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS56,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE16,4%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS15,9%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT1,9%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE1,8%
All others7,0%

National and provincial elections are a different election from local ones; each is shown with its own year. Full 2024 results

Share of valid votes

Proportional representation (PR) ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS60,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE19,5%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS12,4%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT1,1%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA1,0%
Others (21)5,5%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

All 50 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held 1 November 2021 · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 109 080 (60,5% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 406 486
Votes cast: 183 836
Turnout: 45,2%
Spoilt ballots: 3 571

How many votes did each contestant receive?26 contestants · 180 265 valid votes · totals of 351 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share	Share bar
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	109 080	60,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	35 139	19,5%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	22 301	12,4%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	1 990	1,1%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA	1 884	1,0%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS	1 756	1,0%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	1 603	0,9%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	1 020	0,6%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	934	0,5%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE	764	0,4%
Others (16 contestants together)	3 794	2,1%	Not compared

Show all 26 contestants

All 26 contestants26 contestants · 180 265 valid votes · totals of 351 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	109 080	60,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	35 139	19,5%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	22 301	12,4%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	1 990	1,1%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA	1 884	1,0%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS	1 756	1,0%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	1 603	0,9%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	1 020	0,6%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	934	0,5%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE	764	0,4%
INDEPENDENT SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CIVIC ORGANISATION	608	0,3%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE	487	0,3%
AFRICAN MULTICULTURAL ECONOMIC CONGRESS	477	0,3%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT	414	0,2%
GOOD	331	0,2%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	285	0,2%
PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY MOVEMENT	229	0,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION	208	0,1%
BATHO PELE MOVEMENT	182	0,1%
GOD SAVE AFRICA	108	0,1%
AL JAMA-AH	100	0,1%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	89	0,0%
AFRICA RESTORATION ALLIANCE	80	0,0%
THE ORGANIC HUMANITY MOVEMENT	80	0,0%
CIVIC INDEPENDENT	73	0,0%
ARUSHA ECONOMIC COALITION	43	0,0%

Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Eastern Cape (CSV) · retrieved 7 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Eastern Cape (CSV) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 7 October 2026, 22:38 SAST
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Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: IEC copyright notice (elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice, read 2026-10-07): material may be reproduced in unaltered form only for personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation; commercial use is a breach; all other rights reserved; reuse requests to the IEC Manager Legal Services. No separate terms for results data.
Attribution: Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za — 2021 Local Government Elections.

Totals are the sum of the IEC’s published voting-district results, checked against the IEC’s own totals when the data was loaded. Party names are shown exactly as the IEC publishes them.

Council

Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality Council: seats won in the 2021 Local Government Elections, as the IEC calculated them

Seats by party, 2021IEC seat calculation printed 22 November 2021
Party	Ward	PR	Seats	Ward seats today
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	43	18	61	42
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	7	13	20	7
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	13	13	0
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	0	1	1	0
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS	0	1	1	0
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	0	1	1	0
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA	0	1	1	0
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	0	1	1	0
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	0	1	1	0
Total	50	50	100	49 of 50

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 100
Quota: 3 519
Valid votes counted: 351 899

Proportional representation: each party’s total follows its share of the PR and ward votes; its ward winners count first and PR list members fill the rest.

Mayor, speaker and other office-bearers are not on the record yet

Buffalo City’s office-bearers and PR councillors are not in the record yet. They appear once an authoritative source for them is captured and approved; none are inferred from party lists.

The ward seats today differ from the 2021 calculation: a ward can change hands at a by-election, and a ward with no listed councillor and no by-election in the record is left out of the count.

“Ward seats today”: the IEC’s list of current ward councillors and, for the 4 wards that list leaves out after a by-election, the candidate that by-election elected (the list omits by-election winners). Neither source dates when a councillor left office.

Sources: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · 2 official files · retrieved 9 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, Eastern Cape (39 councils) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:19 SAST
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Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Published by the IEC on its official websites; reproduced as published, with attribution (IEC copyright notice: www.elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice).
Attribution: Seat calculations: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za.

Source: IEC — List of current ward councillors, Eastern Cape (33 councils), 2026-10-09 (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:22 SAST
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Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Published by the IEC on its official websites; reproduced as published, with attribution (IEC copyright notice: www.elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice).
Attribution: Ward councillors: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), www.elections.org.za.

Public money

Budgets, audited spending and audit opinions as National Treasury publishes them for the municipality; tenders it publishes under its own name

Budgets, spending and audits

Total revenue, audited actual—no audited year published

Irregular expenditure, reportedR 1,3 billion2023/24

Audit opinionQualified2023/24 · Auditor-General

28 closed · 2 cancelled tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

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Wards of Buffalo City

With each ward’s councillor as the IEC lists today, the party that won it in 2021, and its turnout

50 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	TANDISWA GONIWEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 17 June 2026	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	46,0%	40,0%
Ward 2	ZWELIKHANYILE AKHONA DYWILIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	87,4%	44,2%
Ward 3	LORNA HALIDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	49,0%	33,9%
Ward 4	LEMARC ALLISTER STEWARTDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	56,6%	49,1%
Ward 5	NTOMBENANI MONICA GOCIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	54,5%	40,4%
Ward 6	LUKANYISO MZEKELIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	41,5%	43,3%
Ward 7	MKAKUTTA CLARA YEKISO-MOROLONGAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	63,1%	47,0%
Ward 8	KWANELE MAJEKEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	61,2%	42,6%
Ward 9	MENDI WETSETSEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	45,0%	38,5%
Ward 10	NDYEBO LENNOX MAKELENIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 17 June 2026	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	49,2%	41,2%
Ward 11	NOZUKO CLAUDIA STEMELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	70,2%	42,1%
Ward 12	DUMISANI NTYABONTYIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 9 October 2024	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	81,4%	40,5%
Ward 13	OSCAR MHLAULIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	77,1%	42,6%
Ward 14	ZININZI MTYINGIZANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	51,6%	45,0%
Ward 15	NWABISA MCWABENIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	45,7%	48,8%
Ward 16	NTSIKA QALIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	56,2%	46,2%
Ward 17	VELISWA ANGELINA MRWEBIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	82,6%	43,1%
Ward 18	JASON SCOTT MC DOWELLDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	87,3%	59,6%
Ward 19	SHANDRË MARILYN HOFFMANDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	66,5%	43,5%
Ward 20	LWANDO PISANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 9 October 2024	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	55,9%	45,0%
Ward 21	NKOSINATHI MNDIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	78,1%	43,2%
Ward 22	SABELO BOOIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	76,8%	44,7%
Ward 23	SIMBONGILE SIDWELL GULWAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	77,6%	48,5%
Ward 24	MELISIZWE TUTUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	79,5%	45,5%
Ward 25	CYNTHIA MXABANISI-GAKRISHEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	63,5%	46,5%
Ward 26	MONDE MFENEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	86,3%	42,1%
Ward 27	BOY-BOY KALANIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	45,9%	47,1%
Ward 28	FREDERICK CAREL POHLDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	77,5%	56,1%
Ward 29	VALERIE DAWN KNOETZEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	79,0%	53,7%
Ward 30	NONTYILELO WHITTINGTONAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	78,0%	40,9%
Ward 31	BONISANI BANGANIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	66,1%	51,2%
Ward 32	Not listed	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	67,9%	53,2%
Ward 33	MLULEKI DAVID THOMASAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	87,2%	48,9%
Ward 34	MAYIHLOME MCAKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	79,0%	48,4%
Ward 35	SIMBONGILE PHANDLIWEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	66,8%	48,9%
Ward 36	BONGIWE SAULIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	75,6%	36,6%
Ward 37	NTOMBEKHAYA MURIEL NTSHEBEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	58,6%	40,1%
Ward 38	NTOMBOMZI LETTICIA KESEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	80,9%	41,8%
Ward 39	LUNGA GQOLAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	55,7%	46,0%
Ward 40	KHOLIWE THELMA FAKUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	53,5%	52,7%
Ward 41	SINDISWA GLORIA SKEPEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	55,7%	39,4%
Ward 42	PHAKAMILE BAMLAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	72,4%	44,0%
Ward 43	DUMISANI ANDERSON MAHANJANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	64,3%	44,6%
Ward 44	MWEZI DANISOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	Independents (combined) most votes — winner not identifiable	41,2%	54,6%
Ward 45	THULANI TEMPIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	86,8%	45,0%
Ward 46	NCEBA WISEMAN KILIMANIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	49,9%	43,0%
Ward 47	FUNEKA SARAH WOLOSEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	38,7%	22,5%
Ward 48	PUMEZO JAXAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	73,7%	40,8%
Ward 49	AYANDA NKALAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	89,4%	49,2%
Ward 50	ANELE GUNYAZILEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	59,5%	56,4%

“Won in 2021”: the IEC’s ward-ballot results of the 2021 Local Government Elections, the latest general local election with verified results (sources on each ward’s page); by-elections since then are on each ward’s page. “Councillor today”: the IEC’s list of current ward councillors, read 9 October 2026, or, for a ward it leaves out, the latest by-election result.

Municipality record and boundaries: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) · MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export · retrieved 7 October 2026

Details

Source: MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
Retrieved: 7 October 2026, 22:58 SAST
Fingerprint: 71b7c5ea0ae57bcc5c729d5072de31ba49a96c11f209781e80247d36ad8e237cSHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: MDB terms for municipal and ward boundary data : released for public use with limited restrictions; not to be sold or appropriated for commercial use; may be used in research, publications and value-added products if the MDB is acknowledged as producer and custodian; changed data must not be passed on as an MDB product; faults to be reported to the MDB (SDI Act 54 of 2003).
Attribution: Boundary data: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB), producer and custodian. Geometry simplified for display by Mandate SA; the simplified shapes are not an MDB product.