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Kouga

15 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.

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  • Kouga, Sarah Baartman
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 48,3%–51,4%
  • 51,4%–55,6%
  • 55,6%–57,9%
  • 57,9%–64,4%
  • 64,4%–68,6%

Votes cast ÷ registered voters, per ward. Classes split the wards shown into equal groups.

MDB 2021 boundaries · select an area to open it

2024 National and Provincial Elections

29 May 2024 · National ballot · Counted in Kouga · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
38 543
Turnout
60,8%
Registered
63 929
  1. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE51,1%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS30,8%
  3. PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE6,3%
  4. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS3,6%
  5. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS3,0%
  6. All others5,2%

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

  1. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE53,9%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,6%
  3. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS3,1%
  4. PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE2,0%
  5. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,9%
  6. Others (5)1,6%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 368,6%
  2. Ward 1268,5%
  3. Ward 864,4%
  4. Ward 1162,7%
  5. Ward 261,5%
  6. Ward 557,9%
  7. Ward 1557,6%
  8. Ward 757,6%
  9. Ward 1355,6%
  10. Ward 1052,4%

All 15 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE received the most PR-ballot votes: 18 333 (53,9% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
60 572
Votes cast
34 535
Turnout
57,0%
Spoilt ballots
513
How many votes did each contestant receive?10 contestants · 34 022 valid votes · totals of 40 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE18 33353,9%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS12 77937,6%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS1 0513,1%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE6792,0%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS6411,9%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT2770,8%
GOOD1340,4%
COMPATRIOTS OF SOUTH AFRICA640,2%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT360,1%
THE ORGANIC HUMANITY MOVEMENT280,1%

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

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IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Eastern Cape (CSV) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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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

Kouga Local 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
PartyWardPRSeats
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE9716
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS6511
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS011
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE011
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS011
Total151530

2021 seat calculation

Seats
30
Quota
2 243
Valid votes counted
67 261

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

Kouga’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 0 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

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IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, Eastern Cape (39 councils) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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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)
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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 02023/24
Audit opinionUnqualified - No findings2023/24 · Auditor-General

499 closed · 14 cancelled · 7 published tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

  • 235/2026Advertised as published on 11 October 2026

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    advertised 6 October 2026 · closes 20 October 2026 · Eastern Cape · Request for Quotation

  • 234/2026Advertised as published on 11 October 2026

    RFQ: HIRING OF LIGHT DELIVERY VEHICLES FOR VARIOUS DIRECTORATES OF KOUGA LOCAL MUNICIPALITY FOR THE FESTIVE PERIOD

    advertised 6 October 2026 · closes 20 October 2026 · Eastern Cape · Request for Quotation

  • 233/2026Advertised as published on 11 October 2026

    RFQ: ELECTRICAL BREAKER AND CONCRETE MIXER

    advertised 6 October 2026 · closes 15 October 2026 · Eastern Cape · Request for Quotation

  • 224/2026Advertised as published on 11 October 2026

    RFQ: SUPPLY, DELIVERY AND OFFLOADING OF 4MM² AIRDAC CABLE WITHOUT PILOT CORES

    advertised 2 October 2026 · closes 13 October 2026 · Eastern Cape · Request for Quotation

  • 220/2026Cancelled as published on 11 October 2026

    OFFICE EQUIPMENT (PRINTERS, COPIERS AND MULTI-FUNCTION MACHINES: LEASE OPTION) AND PRINT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

    advertised 1 October 2026 · closes 2 November 2026 · Eastern Cape · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Public projects placed in KougaNational infrastructure register; total budget as stated, shown once per project
ProjectDepartmentStage as statedHow it is placed hereTotal budget
Sarah Baartman CentreSport, Arts and CultureConstruction 1% - 25%its published coordinates lie here (2021 boundaries)R 572 million

Wards of Kouga

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

15 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1NOZUKO PRINCESS NTSHOTAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS51,9%
Ward 2Not listedDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE61,5%
Ward 3WILLEM PETRUS DORMEHL GERTENBACHDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE68,6%
Ward 4ELDRED JAQUES ALEXANDERDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE49,9%
Ward 5MELANIE FREDERIKA NICHOLLSDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE57,9%
Ward 6KHOLISILE JAMES NDZELANIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49,6%
Ward 7ERIC THEMBEKILE MBUQUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS57,6%
Ward 8REINHARDT FOLEYDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE64,4%
Ward 9CYNTHIA CECILY AUGUSTDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE51,4%
Ward 10MSINGATHI GERALD MBANDANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS52,4%
Ward 11ANDRIES STEPHANUS HEYSTEKDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE62,7%
Ward 12LORRAINE LAETITIA MAREEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE68,5%
Ward 13VUYANI CORNELIUS ZANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS55,6%
Ward 14MZWANDILE YALIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS48,3%
Ward 15TIMOTHY WEDLYNN JANTJESDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE57,6%

“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

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Boundary data: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB), producer and custodian. Geometry simplified for display by Mandate SA; the simplified shapes are not an MDB product.