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Phumelela

8 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.

Phumelela, Thabo Mofutsanyane
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

41,2%–43,0%
43,0%–43,9%
43,9%–44,0%
44,0%–54,5%
54,5%–54,5%

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 Phumelela · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 13 677
Turnout: 57,2%
Registered: 24 440

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS50,7%
UMKHONTO WESIZWE15,7%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE14,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS8,3%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS4,0%
All others6,4%

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

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS65,1%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE12,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS11,3%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS5,7%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY2,7%
Others (2)2,4%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

2021 Local Government Elections

Held 1 November 2021 · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 7 000 (65,1% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 24 050
Votes cast: 11 117
Turnout: 46,2%
Spoilt ballots: 364

How many votes did each contestant receive?7 contestants · 10 753 valid votes · totals of 42 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	7 000	65,1%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	1 378	12,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	1 211	11,3%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	615	5,7%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	295	2,7%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	129	1,2%
AFRICAN FREEDOM REVOLUTION	125	1,2%

Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Free State (CSV) · retrieved 7 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Free State (CSV) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 7 October 2026, 22:38 SAST
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Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: IEC copyright notice (elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice, read 2026-10-07): material may be reproduced in unaltered form only for personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation; commercial use is a breach; all other rights reserved; reuse requests to the IEC Manager Legal Services. No separate terms for results data.
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

Phumelela 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
Party	Ward	PR	Seats	Ward seats today
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	8	3	11	8
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	0	2	2	0
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	2	2	0
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	0	1	1	0
Total	8	8	16	8

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 16
Quota: 1 293
Valid votes counted: 20 682

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

Phumelela’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 9 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, Free State (23 councils) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:19 SAST
Fingerprint: e25f195dd4aa3c45186959b9e2d9d1cb0c7b343b5d45514010a94c066e9dcee4SHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Published by the IEC on its official websites; reproduced as published, with attribution (IEC copyright notice: www.elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice).
Attribution: Seat calculations: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za.

Source: IEC — List of current ward councillors, Free State (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:22 SAST
Fingerprint: 1fb36770cc72176a964c4133df7e361c662e41118973af3ac0741054c1ddc662SHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Published by the IEC on its official websites; reproduced as published, with attribution (IEC copyright notice: www.elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice).
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 2,6 million2023/24

Audit opinionUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · Auditor-General

59 closed · 4 cancelled · 3 awarded · 1 published tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

PLMT26-27/01Cancelled as published on 11 October 2026
provision of laboratory services for monitoring of water quality in Phumelela municipality for 36 months.
advertised 9 October 2026 · closes 9 November 2026 · Free State · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
PLMT26-27/01aAdvertised as published on 11 October 2026
provision of laboratory services for monitoring of water quality in Phumelela local municipality for 36 months
advertised 9 October 2026 · closes 9 November 2026 · Free State · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
PLMT 24-25/02 NOTICEClosed as published on 11 October 2026
Appointment of a financial institution registerd in terms of the bank act 1990 no:94 of 1990 to render banking services for a period of 5 years.
advertised 17 September 2026 · closes 18 September 2026 · Expression of interest
PLMT 25-26/03 NoticeClosed as published on 11 October 2026
Appointment of a contractor for he refurbishment of Vrede/ Thembalihle wastewater treatment works(phase 2B)- schedule 5B
advertised 2 September 2026 · closes 3 September 2026 · Expression of interest
PLMT 25-26/03 INTENSIONClosed as published on 11 October 2026
intension to award for the appointment of a contractor for the refurbishment of the Vrede WWTW (Phase 2B) Schedule 5B
advertised 19 August 2026 · closes 31 August 2026 · Expression of interest

Wards of Phumelela

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

8 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	SIZWE ONEBOY MAGUBANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	65,5%	54,5%
Ward 2	VYITAH PHINDILE MAHLABAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	73,6%	43,9%
Ward 3	MBUYISELWA DUME KOBENIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	39,7%	45,5%
Ward 4	KHEHLA ANTONY SIBEKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	64,9%	41,2%
Ward 5	LLEMENTINA LEBOHANG MOLEFEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	63,6%	44,0%
Ward 6	THABO PETER TSOTETSIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	80,9%	43,0%
Ward 7	BUTI APRIL MOTSOENENGAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	55,0%	43,4%
Ward 8	VUSIMUZI THELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	59,6%	54,5%

“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 7 October 2026

Details

Source: MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
Retrieved: 7 October 2026, 22:58 SAST
Fingerprint: 71b7c5ea0ae57bcc5c729d5072de31ba49a96c11f209781e80247d36ad8e237cSHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: MDB terms for municipal and ward boundary data : released for public use with limited restrictions; not to be sold or appropriated for commercial use; may be used in research, publications and value-added products if the MDB is acknowledged as producer and custodian; changed data must not be passed on as an MDB product; faults to be reported to the MDB (SDI Act 54 of 2003).
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.