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Setsoto

17 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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  • Setsoto, Thabo Mofutsanyane
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 33,5%–38,4%
  • 38,4%–43,5%
  • 43,5%–46,2%
  • 46,2%–50,6%
  • 50,6%–58,0%

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 Setsoto · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
30 594
Turnout
54,4%
Registered
57 072
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS62,0%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE15,7%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS11,9%
  4. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS2,6%
  5. AFRICAN CONGRESS FOR TRANSFORMATION1,6%
  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 CONGRESS51,1%
  2. SETSOTO SERVICE DELIVERY FORUM22,8%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS9,3%
  4. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE7,0%
  5. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS4,6%
  6. Others (6)5,1%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 458,0%
  2. Ward 652,9%
  3. Ward 751,9%
  4. Ward 850,6%
  5. Ward 1549,7%
  6. Ward 949,2%
  7. Ward 1146,2%
  8. Ward 144,5%
  9. Ward 1244,2%
  10. Ward 343,7%

All 17 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 12 409 (51,1% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
55 718
Votes cast
24 921
Turnout
44,7%
Spoilt ballots
658
How many votes did each contestant receive?11 contestants · 24 263 valid votes · totals of 73 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS12 40951,1%
SETSOTO SERVICE DELIVERY FORUM5 54222,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2 2639,3%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1 7017,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS1 1064,6%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT3041,3%
ALL UNEMPLOYMENT LABOUR ALLIANCE3021,2%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY2280,9%
FORUM 4 SERVICE DELIVERY1600,7%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE1390,6%
POWER OF AFRICANS UNITY1090,4%

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

Setsoto 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 CONGRESS14317
SETSOTO SERVICE DELIVERY FORUM358
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS033
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE022
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS022
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT011
Total171633

2021 seat calculation

Seats
33
Quota
1 464
Valid votes counted
48 287

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

Setsoto’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 1 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 10 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 Setsoto

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

17 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1TSHWANELO PHANDREANOX MOTSOANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS44,5%
Ward 2TIMOTHY LEBEKO LANGAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,5%
Ward 3MOJALEFA JOEL MALEKESETSOTO SERVICE DELIVERY FORUMSETSOTO SERVICE DELIVERY FORUM43,7%
Ward 4MMASA ALFRED PONYAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS58,0%
Ward 5CHERE DANIEL MOIPATLIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,1%
Ward 6MOTSAMAI WILLIAM SELASIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS52,9%
Ward 7NTEMA PETER KHATLAKEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS51,9%
Ward 8LEBOHANG GILBERT MOKOAKOEECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS · elected at the by-election of 7 August 2024SETSOTO SERVICE DELIVERY FORUM50,6%
Ward 9THABO ISAAC MTHIMKHULUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49,2%
Ward 10STEPHEN MANKO CONSTABLEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,0%
Ward 11KOMANE ELIAS KOALANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS46,2%
Ward 12MORAKE EDWARD LETUBEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS44,2%
Ward 13LEFU ELLIOT MOTLOENYAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,8%
Ward 14THABANG ELIAS MAKAEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS38,4%
Ward 15TIEHO GEORGE MAKHALANYANESETSOTO SERVICE DELIVERY FORUMSETSOTO SERVICE DELIVERY FORUM49,7%
Ward 16LESOLE DAVID THAMAEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,7%
Ward 17PAKALITHA ISAAC MAVALELISOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS33,5%

“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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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.