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Merafong City

28 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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  • Merafong City, West Rand
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 17,2%–35,2%
  • 35,2%–42,4%
  • 42,4%–44,2%
  • 44,2%–48,2%
  • 48,2%–57,1%

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 Merafong City · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
55 203
Turnout
57,8%
Registered
96 604
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS50,8%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE18,6%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS13,6%
  4. UMKHONTO WESIZWE7,8%
  5. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS2,3%
  6. All others6,9%

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 CONGRESS49,7%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE16,5%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS15,8%
  4. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS7,1%
  5. MERAFONG AGENTS OF CHANGE3,5%
  6. Others (13)7,4%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 2157,1%
  2. Ward 1252,9%
  3. Ward 751,5%
  4. Ward 2449,3%
  5. Ward 2848,8%
  6. Ward 948,2%
  7. Ward 247,3%
  8. Ward 645,4%
  9. Ward 1345,1%
  10. Ward 1444,8%

All 28 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 19 316 (49,7% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
94 811
Votes cast
39 916
Turnout
42,1%
Spoilt ballots
1 033
How many votes did each contestant receive?18 contestants · 38 883 valid votes · totals of 76 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS19 31649,7%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE6 43016,5%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS6 12715,8%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS2 7617,1%
MERAFONG AGENTS OF CHANGE1 3563,5%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY6541,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS4601,2%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT4021,0%
FORUM 4 SERVICE DELIVERY2270,6%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE2030,5%
Others (8 contestants together)9472,4%
Show all 18 contestants
All 18 contestants18 contestants · 38 883 valid votes · totals of 76 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS19 31649,7%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE6 43016,5%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS6 12715,8%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS2 7617,1%
MERAFONG AGENTS OF CHANGE1 3563,5%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY6541,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS4601,2%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT4021,0%
FORUM 4 SERVICE DELIVERY2270,6%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE2030,5%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT1920,5%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1810,5%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA1480,4%
INTERNATIONAL REVELATION CONGRESS1290,3%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE1160,3%
JUSTICE AND EMPLOYMENT PARTY650,2%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY590,2%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY570,1%

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

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IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Gauteng (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

Merafong City 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 CONGRESS21627
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE549
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS189
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS044
MERAFONG AGENTS OF CHANGE022
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS011
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY011
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT011
Independent ward councillors1–1
Total282755

2021 seat calculation

Seats
55
Quota
1 407
Valid votes counted
75 942

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

Merafong City’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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IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, Gauteng (11 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, Gauteng (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 209 million2023/24
Audit opinionQualified2023/24 · 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 Merafong City

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

28 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1ALFRED TOKO RICHARD MOTSUMIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS44,2%
Ward 2TERRENCE MVULENI MNQANDIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,3%
Ward 3ERNEST TIBANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS44,3%
Ward 4FANYANA ALFRED MOTLOUNGAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 30 November 2022Independents (combined) most votes — winner not identifiable43,9%
Ward 5NASIWE MCETYWAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS26,0%
Ward 6LEBOGANG ISRAEL MANGALISOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS45,4%
Ward 7DIPUO MIRRIAM SEGAKWENGAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS51,5%
Ward 8MZWANDILE BENNETT NKABINDEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,6%
Ward 9NGAKA CEDRICK PITLELEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS48,2%
Ward 10Not listedAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS38,5%
Ward 11NTHABELENG LETLABIKAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS32,9%
Ward 12THABO MOKUKEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS52,9%
Ward 13ELIAS THULANI MTHEMBUECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERSECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS45,1%
Ward 14LINDY MARITZDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE44,8%
Ward 15LUVO AARON MGANUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,1%
Ward 16Not listedDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE42,4%
Ward 17CARL SEBASTIAN STEENEKAMPDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE42,4%
Ward 18SEREBOLO ISAAC THLARIPEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS35,2%
Ward 19VUSUMZI MAGICPOWER TYELINGANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS30,4%
Ward 20MLUNGISI NGQELEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS33,4%
Ward 21JOHAN DAVID WILLEM ZWARTDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE57,1%
Ward 22ANDRONICA MOTLALEPULE PHENDUKAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS44,1%
Ward 23LUNGILE MONGEZI MPUPUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,2%
Ward 24TUMELO DANIEL MOLATLHEGIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49,3%
Ward 25DANIEL LUCKY MIYILIBEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,0%
Ward 26GWEBALESWI ENDREW MBALISOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42,3%
Ward 27MTHUTHUZELI NAKIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS17,2%
Ward 28CARLOS MANUEL DIAS REBELODEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE48,8%

“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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Boundary data: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB), producer and custodian. Geometry simplified for display by Mandate SA; the simplified shapes are not an MDB product.