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Walter Sisulu

11 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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  • Walter Sisulu, Joe Gqabi
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 41,9%–45,7%
  • 45,7%–46,6%
  • 46,6%–48,1%
  • 48,1%–49,3%
  • 49,3%–51,8%

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 Walter Sisulu · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
21 513
Turnout
58,0%
Registered
37 540
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS60,8%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE18,2%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS10,9%
  4. PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE2,5%
  5. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS1,3%
  6. All others6,2%

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 CONGRESS55,7%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE22,9%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS12,5%
  4. MALETSWAI CIVIC ASSOCIATION7,4%
  5. AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT1,6%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 151,8%
  2. Ward 1050,1%
  3. Ward 1149,3%
  4. Ward 248,4%
  5. Ward 948,1%
  6. Ward 747,6%
  7. Ward 446,6%
  8. Ward 845,8%
  9. Ward 545,7%
  10. Ward 344,2%

All 11 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 9 367 (55,7% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
36 110
Votes cast
17 061
Turnout
47,2%
Spoilt ballots
248
How many votes did each contestant receive?5 contestants · 16 813 valid votes · totals of 43 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS9 36755,7%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE3 84222,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2 10012,5%
MALETSWAI CIVIC ASSOCIATION1 2377,4%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT2671,6%

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

Walter Sisulu 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 CONGRESS9312
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE235
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS033
MALETSWAI CIVIC ASSOCIATION022
Total111122

2021 seat calculation

Seats
22
Quota
1 530
Valid votes counted
33 641

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

Walter Sisulu’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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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 22 million2023/24
Audit opinionQualified2023/24 · Auditor-General

33 closed · 1 awarded tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

  • 78/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Provision of training service provider for MFMP for a period of three years

    advertised 24 March 2026 · closes 15 April 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • 85/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of a service provider for the culling of animals at Buffel Spruit

    advertised 24 March 2026 · closes 15 April 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • 84/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Provision of training service provider for peace officers for a period of three years

    advertised 24 March 2026 · closes 15 April 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • 83/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Provision of training service provider for preparing and laying pre cast for a period of three years

    advertised 24 March 2026 · closes 15 April 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • 82/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Provision of training service provider for general road maintanance for a period of three years

    advertised 24 March 2026 · closes 15 April 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of Walter Sisulu

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

11 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1WONGALETHU CALVIN NODWELEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS51,8%
Ward 2BULELANI JOSEPH HUKWEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS48,4%
Ward 3MATTHEE DE RIDDER NELDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE44,2%
Ward 4VUSUMZI BUSAKWEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS46,6%
Ward 5ZIBONGILE GEORGE WELEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS45,7%
Ward 6MATTHEW WESIZWE MOETIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,9%
Ward 7KHIBA HENRY MATHUNYAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,6%
Ward 8Not listedAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS45,8%
Ward 9IGNATIUS MOSES LONDONDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE48,1%
Ward 10TSOTANG DAWID MATLOTLOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS50,1%
Ward 11NOMANONO VICTORIA MOYOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49,3%

“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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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.