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Ngqushwa

12 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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  • Ngqushwa, Amathole
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 43,1%–47,3%
  • 47,3%–49,2%
  • 49,2%–53,9%
  • 53,9%–54,4%
  • 54,4%–66,5%

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 Ngqushwa · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
21 039
Turnout
57,0%
Registered
37 479
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS82,0%
  2. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS10,0%
  3. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1,7%
  4. PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA1,4%
  5. UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT1,0%
  6. All others3,8%

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 CONGRESS81,3%
  2. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS12,5%
  3. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE2,9%
  4. AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT2,0%
  5. INDEPENDENT SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CIVIC ORGANISATION1,3%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 1266,5%
  2. Ward 1159,8%
  3. Ward 954,4%
  4. Ward 154,3%
  5. Ward 253,9%
  6. Ward 553,1%
  7. Ward 1052,4%
  8. Ward 349,2%
  9. Ward 648,9%
  10. Ward 847,3%

All 12 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 14 561 (81,3% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
35 846
Votes cast
18 802
Turnout
52,5%
Spoilt ballots
889
How many votes did each contestant receive?5 contestants · 17 913 valid votes · totals of 90 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS14 56181,3%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2 24512,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE5172,9%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT3552,0%
INDEPENDENT SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CIVIC ORGANISATION2351,3%

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

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Source
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

Ngqushwa 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 CONGRESS11718
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS033
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE011
Independent ward councillors1–1
Total121123

2021 seat calculation

Seats
23
Quota
1 559
Valid votes counted
34 276

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

Ngqushwa’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 3,4 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.

Wards of Ngqushwa

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

12 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1MFUNDO GQOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS54,3%
Ward 2PHUMZA NODALAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS53,9%
Ward 3BULELA BENSON NTABENIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49,2%
Ward 4NOMFUNDO AGNES NTSUNGUZIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,1%
Ward 5NTOMBETHEMBA LAWUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS53,1%
Ward 6SIPHOKAZI GIFTINA MHLAKANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS48,9%
Ward 7MLUNGISELELI LUZIPHOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS46,9%
Ward 8NANDIPHA DYALIVANI-TOTYIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,3%
Ward 9NOMZAMO MTATIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS54,4%
Ward 10LINDELWA ETHEL CINYWA-MCOBOKIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS52,4%
Ward 11Not listedIndependents (combined) most votes — winner not identifiable59,8%
Ward 12DANISWA NCANYWAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS66,5%

“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.