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Great Kei

7 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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  • Great Kei, Amathole
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 37,7%–52,8%
  • 52,8%–53,0%
  • 53,0%–55,4%
  • 55,4%–64,4%
  • 64,4%–65,2%

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 Great Kei · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
12 690
Turnout
65,4%
Registered
19 630
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS63,0%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE18,1%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS12,8%
  4. AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT1,1%
  5. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS0,8%
  6. All others4,2%

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. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS67,4%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE18,7%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS10,7%
  4. GOOD1,8%
  5. UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT0,9%
  6. Others (1)0,6%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 165,2%
  2. Ward 564,4%
  3. Ward 655,4%
  4. Ward 355,0%
  5. Ward 753,0%
  6. Ward 452,8%
  7. Ward 237,7%

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 6 518 (67,4% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
17 935
Votes cast
9 845
Turnout
54,9%
Spoilt ballots
168
How many votes did each contestant receive?6 contestants · 9 677 valid votes · totals of 44 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS6 51867,4%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1 80718,7%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1 03110,7%
GOOD1701,8%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT910,9%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT600,6%

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

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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

Great Kei 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
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS729
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE033
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS011
Total7613

2021 seat calculation

Seats
13
Quota
1 415
Valid votes counted
18 385

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

Great Kei’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.

“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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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 - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · Auditor-General

38 closed · 8 awarded · 1 cancelled tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

  • TECH/CIV: 04/2024/25Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Provision for a Panel of Professional Civil Engineering Consultants for a Period of 2 years (Panel of 14)

    advertised 15 April 2024 · closes 29 April 2024 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • TECH/MIG: 30/2023/24Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Extension of Construction for Ngxingxolo Internal Street.

    advertised 11 April 2024 · closes 24 April 2024 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • TECH/MIG 31/2023/24Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Extension of Construction for Diphini Internal Street.

    advertised 11 April 2024 · closes 24 April 2024 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • BTO 33/2023/24Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Supply and Installation of Microsoft Licensing for a period of 3 years.

    advertised 10 April 2024 · closes 23 April 2024 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • BTO 32/2023/24Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Leasing of Photocopier Machines for a period of Three years.

    advertised 10 April 2024 · closes 23 April 2024 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of Great Kei

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

7 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1SIPIWO HONEY PAKAMILEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS65,2%
Ward 2ZOLANI MZWANELE NZUZOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,7%
Ward 3MONWABISE GEORGE NJANYAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS55,0%
Ward 4MZOLI TWANIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS52,8%
Ward 5ZUKO PATULUKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS64,4%
Ward 6WIVER SINQANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS55,4%
Ward 7ZOLA TSHALIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS53,0%

“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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MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
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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.