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Kopanong

9 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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  • Kopanong, Xhariep
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 43,0%–47,8%
  • 47,8%–49,2%
  • 49,2%–49,9%
  • 49,9%–51,8%
  • 51,8%–53,6%

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 Kopanong · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
14 764
Turnout
58,8%
Registered
25 443
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS60,3%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE19,2%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS10,9%
  4. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS2,9%
  5. PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE1,7%
  6. All others5,0%

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 CONGRESS66,9%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE16,3%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS10,8%
  4. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS5,2%
  5. AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT0,7%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 953,6%
  2. Ward 551,8%
  3. Ward 450,6%
  4. Ward 249,9%
  5. Ward 849,8%
  6. Ward 349,2%
  7. Ward 748,9%
  8. Ward 647,8%
  9. Ward 143,0%

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 8 055 (66,9% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
24 967
Votes cast
12 350
Turnout
49,5%
Spoilt ballots
315
How many votes did each contestant receive?5 contestants · 12 035 valid votes · totals of 41 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS8 05566,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1 96716,3%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1 29910,8%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS6265,2%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT880,7%

Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Free State (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

Kopanong 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 CONGRESS9211
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE033
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS022
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS011
Total9817

2021 seat calculation

Seats
17
Quota
1 392
Valid votes counted
23 658

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

Kopanong’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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Seat calculations: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za.
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IEC — List of current ward councillors, Free State (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 6,0 million2023/24
Audit opinionOutstanding2023/24 · Auditor-General

74 closed · 9 awarded tender notices · 2 awards published · all notices

  • KLM/BET/SEWR/02/25-26Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Bethulie: Upgrading, Repairing, Refurbishment of Sewer Pump Stations, Sewer Rising Mains and Sewer Pipelines.

    advertised 15 May 2026 · closes 15 June 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • KLM: Laptops/04/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Re-Advert: Supply and Delivery of Laptops.

    advertised 6 May 2026 · closes 14 May 2026 · Request for Quotation

  • Erratum KLM/FAU/PAVED/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of a contractor for Fauresmith: Construction of Access Paved Road (taxi route) in Ipopeng.

    advertised 27 March 2026 · closes 7 April 2026 · Request for Proposal

  • Erratum KLM/GAR/PAVED/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of a contractor for Gariep Dam: Construction of Paved Road in Nosizwe Park.

    advertised 27 March 2026 · closes 7 April 2026 · Request for Proposal

  • Erratum KLM/PHP/PAVED/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of a contractor for Philippolis: Construction of a Paved Road.

    advertised 27 March 2026 · closes 7 April 2026 · Request for Proposal

Wards of Kopanong

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

9 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1ITUMELENG BENJAMIN MPHOUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,0%
Ward 2MOTSAMAI GODFREY MOKHESENGAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49,9%
Ward 3MOEKETSI MICHAEL MOTLOHIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49,2%
Ward 4VUYISILE ISHMAEL JONASAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS50,6%
Ward 5NOMATHEMBA SYLVIA SPOGTERAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS51,8%
Ward 6XOLANI JOHNY TSELETSELEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,8%
Ward 7MOREKIEMANG JERRY MOITSEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS48,9%
Ward 8MZIWANELE VINCENT MALGASAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49,8%
Ward 9PHEELLO MILLARD MOTANTSIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS53,6%

“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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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.