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uMshwathi

14 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.

uMshwathi, Umgungundlovu
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

41,9%–46,8%
46,8%–51,7%
51,7%–55,0%
55,0%–58,0%
58,0%–58,4%

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 uMshwathi · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 36 988
Turnout: 64,3%
Registered: 58 829

UMKHONTO WESIZWE54,9%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS26,4%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY8,0%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE5,7%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2,0%
All others2,9%

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

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS58,5%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY15,6%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS12,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE6,7%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS4,2%
Others (3)2,6%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

All 14 wards

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: 17 115 (58,5% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 56 822
Votes cast: 29 925
Turnout: 52,7%
Spoilt ballots: 687

How many votes did each contestant receive?8 contestants · 29 238 valid votes · totals of 66 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	17 115	58,5%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	4 554	15,6%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	3 656	12,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	1 945	6,7%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	1 220	4,2%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE	480	1,6%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	149	0,5%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	119	0,4%

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

Details

Source: IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, KwaZulu-Natal (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

uMshwathi 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	14	2	16	13
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	0	4	4	0
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	3	3	0
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	0	2	2	0
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	0	1	1	0
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE	0	1	1	0
Total	14	13	27	13 of 14

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 27
Quota: 2 151
Valid votes counted: 58 060

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

uMshwathi’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 9 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, KwaZulu-Natal (54 councils) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:19 SAST
Fingerprint: bb0023f5959f28f2e42be2398d7d54d5f07a4785f4c86fea948cb4ef057bbebbSHA-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, KwaZulu-Natal (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:22 SAST
Fingerprint: 2f6e5ad3f19791a4da3373d2ab74574e175755fb24d3becfb94d3468ae2dc1b5SHA-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 2,5 million2023/24

Audit opinionUnqualified - No findings2023/24 · Auditor-General

87 closed · 3 awarded · 2 cancelled · 1 published tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

T2026/27/007Advertised as published on 11 October 2026
Supply and Deliver of PPE for period of Three (03) Years
advertised 22 September 2026 · closes 23 October 2026 · KwaZulu-Natal · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
T2026/27/002Closed as published on 11 October 2026
Cool Air Electrification Phase 5
advertised 31 August 2026 · closes 15 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
T2025/26/026 - Re-AdvertisementClosed as published on 11 October 2026
Refurbishment and Upgrade of Protea Drive Bridge in Cool Air – Ward 7
advertised 11 August 2026 · closes 25 August 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
T2025/26/022Closed as published on 11 October 2026
The Supply, Installation, Commissioning and Maintaining of Human Resources and Payroll System, Time and Attendance Control System and Employee Self-Service Solution for the municipality for a period of 36 months.
advertised 11 June 2026 · closes 10 July 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
T2025/26/026Cancelled as published on 11 October 2026
Refurbishment and Upgrade of Protea Drive Bridge in Cool Air Ward 7
advertised 25 May 2026 · closes 5 June 2026 · KwaZulu-Natal · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of uMshwathi

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

14 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	PHILLIP MDUDUZI MLOBELIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	69,5%	58,4%
Ward 2	SIKHUMBUZO NXUMALOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	42,1%	51,7%
Ward 3	BHEKI ALEX MBUTHUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	48,4%	56,2%
Ward 4	NJABULO EMMANUEL CEBEKULUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	41,0%	47,7%
Ward 5	HLANGANANI NGOTHI CHAMANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	51,7%	51,5%
Ward 6	SPHAMANDLA GABRIEL SHEZIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 13 March 2024	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	69,8%	55,0%
Ward 7	SIBONGILE MINNIE MBATHA-NTULIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	55,7%	54,4%
Ward 8	NHLAKANIPHO WASHINGTON GASAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	52,4%	53,9%
Ward 9	EMMANUEL BONGANI MBONGWEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	54,9%	41,9%
Ward 10	HLENGIWE KHUMALOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	56,4%	58,1%
Ward 11	MTHOKO ANDRIAS MBHELEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	73,1%	58,0%
Ward 12	Not listed	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	76,4%	55,6%
Ward 13	NOMUSA RONAH KHANYILEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	80,2%	46,8%
Ward 14	MAVIS ZANELE MBEWANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	56,5%	43,7%

“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.