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Ugu

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

Ugu, KwaZulu-Natal
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections

47,7%–48,4%
48,4%–51,1%
51,1%–54,7%
54,7%–54,7%

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 CONGRESS51,2%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY18,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE13,1%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS9,4%
AL JAMA-AH1,3%
Others (12)6,6%

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: 89 963 (51,2% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 364 561
Votes cast: 179 272
Turnout: 49,2%
Spoilt ballots: 3 492

How many votes did each contestant receive?17 contestants · 175 780 valid votes · totals of 427 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share	Share bar
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	89 963	51,2%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	32 545	18,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	22 990	13,1%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	16 521	9,4%
AL JAMA-AH	2 246	1,3%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	2 233	1,3%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	1 393	0,8%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT	1 284	0,7%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	1 194	0,7%
ALLIED MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE	1 122	0,6%
Others (7 contestants together)	4 289	2,4%	Not compared

Show all 17 contestants

All 17 contestants17 contestants · 175 780 valid votes · totals of 427 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	89 963	51,2%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	32 545	18,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	22 990	13,1%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	16 521	9,4%
AL JAMA-AH	2 246	1,3%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	2 233	1,3%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	1 393	0,8%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT	1 284	0,7%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	1 194	0,7%
ALLIED MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE	1 122	0,6%
JUSTICE AND EMPLOYMENT PARTY	1 078	0,6%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	986	0,6%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	727	0,4%
PEOPLE'S FREEDOM PARTY	560	0,3%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	398	0,2%
AFRICAN MANTUNGWA COMMUNITY	339	0,2%
NATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM PARTY	201	0,1%

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

Details

Source: IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, KwaZulu-Natal (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

Ugu 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	8
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	3
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	2
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	2
Total	15

2021 seat calculation

Elected seats: 15
Quota: 11 719
Valid votes counted: 175 780

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

Ugu’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, KwaZulu-Natal (54 councils) · retrieved 9 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, KwaZulu-Natal (54 councils) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:19 SAST
Fingerprint: bb0023f5959f28f2e42be2398d7d54d5f07a4785f4c86fea948cb4ef057bbebbSHA-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 107 million2023/24

Audit opinionUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · 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 Ugu

2021 boundaries · turnout in the 2021 Local Government Elections

4 municipalities2021 boundaries
Name	Type	Turnout
Umdoni	Local municipality	48,4%
Umzumbe	Local municipality	51,1%
uMuziwabantu	Local municipality	54,7%
Ray Nkonyeni	Local municipality	47,7%

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.