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Amathole

6 municipalities on the 2021 boundaries. Official results of the 2021 Local Government Elections below (the latest verified for this place), with their sources.

Amathole, Eastern Cape
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections

42,3%–46,0%
46,0%–47,2%
47,2%–48,0%
48,0%–52,5%
52,5%–54,9%

Votes cast on the municipal PR ballot ÷ registered voters. Classes split the areas shown into equal groups.

MDB 2021 boundaries · select an area to open it

Share of valid votes

District council PR ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS73,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS8,0%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT6,3%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4,7%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT1,7%
Others (10)5,4%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by municipality

2021 Local Government Elections

Held 1 November 2021 · Official results — not current figures

District council PR ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 140 020 (73,8% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 425 684
Votes cast: 197 183
Turnout: 46,3%
Spoilt ballots: 7 580

How many votes did each contestant receive?15 contestants · 189 603 valid votes · totals of 983 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share	Share bar
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	140 020	73,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	15 246	8,0%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	11 874	6,3%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	8 865	4,7%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	3 290	1,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS	3 020	1,6%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE	1 623	0,9%
BATHO PELE MOVEMENT	1 489	0,8%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION	1 288	0,7%
INDEPENDENT SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CIVIC ORGANISATION	840	0,4%
Others (5 contestants together)	2 048	1,1%	Not compared

Show all 15 contestants

All 15 contestants15 contestants · 189 603 valid votes · totals of 983 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	140 020	73,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	15 246	8,0%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	11 874	6,3%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	8 865	4,7%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	3 290	1,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS	3 020	1,6%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE	1 623	0,9%
BATHO PELE MOVEMENT	1 489	0,8%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION	1 288	0,7%
INDEPENDENT SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CIVIC ORGANISATION	840	0,4%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	586	0,3%
AFRICAN DEMOCRATS	532	0,3%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	407	0,2%
AL JAMA-AH	302	0,2%
GOD SAVE AFRICA	221	0,1%

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

Amathole District Municipality Council: the seats elected on the district ballot in 2021 (40% of the council; the rest are appointed by its local councils)

Directly elected seats by party, 2021IEC seat calculation
Party	Seats	Share of seats
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	14
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	2
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	1
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	1
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	1
Total	19

2021 seat calculation

Elected seats: 19
Quota: 9 980
Valid votes counted: 189 603

Seats on the district ballot are shared in proportion to votes. Appointed members are not listed here.

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

Amathole’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.

Sources: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, Eastern Cape (39 councils) · 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
Fingerprint: 6e9cc0a0d2e1fd8edcaaf8f78726bc452f6bb4f13a93449519b9091b40376b45SHA-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: 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.

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 639 million2023/24

Audit opinionQualified2023/24 · Auditor-General

No organ of state on the eTender portal is linked to this municipality by an identical name; its notices, if any, are listed under the name the portal prints.

Municipalities of Amathole

2021 boundaries · turnout in the 2021 Local Government Elections

6 municipalities2021 boundaries
Name	Type	Turnout
Mbhashe	Local municipality	46,0%
Mnquma	Local municipality	42,3%
Great Kei	Local municipality	54,9%
Amahlathi	Local municipality	47,2%
Ngqushwa	Local municipality	52,5%
Raymond Mhlaba	Local municipality	48,0%

District 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.