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The Msunduzi

41 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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  • The Msunduzi, Umgungundlovu
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 31,9%–42,0%
  • 42,0%–47,0%
  • 47,0%–50,7%
  • 50,7%–54,0%
  • 54,0%–61,1%

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 The Msunduzi · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
236 523
Turnout
67,6%
Registered
354 829
  1. UMKHONTO WESIZWE52,2%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS18,0%
  3. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE17,8%
  4. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY5,9%
  5. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2,9%
  6. All others3,2%

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 CONGRESS49,5%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE19,5%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS11,9%
  4. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY9,7%
  5. ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS1,7%
  6. Others (22)7,7%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 761,1%
  2. Ward 359,1%
  3. Ward 156,8%
  4. Ward 255,9%
  5. Ward 2555,9%
  6. Ward 855,1%
  7. Ward 4055,0%
  8. Ward 554,8%
  9. Ward 3954,0%
  10. Ward 453,9%

All 41 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 77 703 (49,5% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
339 257
Votes cast
161 734
Turnout
47,7%
Spoilt ballots
4 697
How many votes did each contestant receive?27 contestants · 157 037 valid votes · totals of 238 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS77 70349,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE30 69719,5%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS18 67311,9%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY15 2709,7%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS2 6141,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS1 7281,1%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE1 4540,9%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1 1590,7%
JUSTICE AND EMPLOYMENT PARTY1 1110,7%
DEVOTED CITIZENS OF MSUNDUZI9330,6%
Others (17 contestants together)5 6953,6%
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All 27 contestants27 contestants · 157 037 valid votes · totals of 238 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS77 70349,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE30 69719,5%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS18 67311,9%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY15 2709,7%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS2 6141,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS1 7281,1%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE1 4540,9%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1 1590,7%
JUSTICE AND EMPLOYMENT PARTY1 1110,7%
DEVOTED CITIZENS OF MSUNDUZI9330,6%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY7770,5%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT7380,5%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT4620,3%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA4610,3%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS4490,3%
AL JAMA-AH4350,3%
KZN INDEPENDENCE4250,3%
MINORITY FRONT3760,2%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION3140,2%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT2560,2%
BLACK FIRST LAND FIRST2050,1%
AFRICAN MANTUNGWA COMMUNITY1630,1%
SPECTRUM NATIONAL PARTY1600,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION1590,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE FIRST1390,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT920,1%
PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT840,1%

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

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

The Msunduzi 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 CONGRESS291140
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE10616
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS01010
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY178
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS022
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY011
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS011
JUSTICE AND EMPLOYMENT PARTY011
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE011
Independent ward councillors1–1
Total414081

2021 seat calculation

Seats
81
Quota
3 835
Valid votes counted
306 749

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

The Msunduzi’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 3 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, KwaZulu-Natal (54 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.
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IEC — List of current ward councillors, KwaZulu-Natal (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 14 million2023/24
Audit opinionOutstanding2023/24 · 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.

Public projects placed in The MsunduziNational infrastructure register; total budget as stated, shown once per project
ProjectDepartmentStage as statedHow it is placed hereTotal budget
Harry GwalaHealthProject Initiationits published coordinates lie here (2021 boundaries)R 1,0 billion
Deeds office and surveyor general office (Pietermaritzburg): Upgrading of air conditioning and fire detection systemsLand Reform and Rural DevelopmentTenderits published coordinates lie here (2021 boundaries)R 43 million

Wards of The Msunduzi

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

41 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1KHULEKANI MSOMIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS56,8%
Ward 2MBONGENI ZUMAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 18 December 2024AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS55,9%
Ward 3SKHANYISO CYRIL MAKHAYEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS59,1%
Ward 4HAMILTON MLUNGISI ZONDIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS53,9%
Ward 5NKOSINATHI MAXWELL MBANJWAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS54,8%
Ward 6KWAZIKWAKHE EMMANUEL MADONDAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS53,0%
Ward 7BUKELANI EPHRAIM ZUMAINDEPENDENTIndependents (combined) most votes — winner not identifiable61,1%
Ward 8MSHUSHISI AUBREY NGUBANEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY55,1%
Ward 9MDUDUZI CASWELL MSHENGUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS53,0%
Ward 10THEMBA CYRIL NGUBANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,8%
Ward 11SANELE RUSSEL ZUMAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS50,8%
Ward 12NKOSINATHI PATRICK MASOEUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,7%
Ward 13GLADNESS SIBONGILE MNCWANGOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,4%
Ward 14SIBUSISO ALFRED MKHIZEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,2%
Ward 15MSWAWAKHE BHENGUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42,5%
Ward 16MICHAEL BHEKABANTU ZUMAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,6%
Ward 17MPHILISI INSTANCE NDLOVUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,6%
Ward 18SIMPHIWE SAMUEL BUTHELEZIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,3%
Ward 19PERCIVAL VUSI NGWENYAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42,0%
Ward 20SIPHIWE PHUNGULAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,0%
Ward 21SBONGUMUSA ZUMAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS51,1%
Ward 22THEMBINKOSI ZONDIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,5%
Ward 23DUMISANI BERNARD PHUNGULAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,9%
Ward 24SINOTHI JEROME NKABINIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,7%
Ward 25Not listedDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE55,9%
Ward 26ROSS BRYAN STRACHANDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE51,9%
Ward 27HAROON DANIEL KEMPDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE31,9%
Ward 28RENISHA SINGHDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE · elected at the by-election of 18 January 2023DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE44,9%
Ward 29SIPHAMANDLA SYDNEY MADLALAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS48,0%
Ward 30RACHEL SUBJEEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE50,7%
Ward 31ROOKSANA AHMEDDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE42,4%
Ward 32GARTH FREDERICK WESLEY MIDDLETONDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE42,6%
Ward 33SURAYA REDDYDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE37,9%
Ward 34ROY RAMAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,4%
Ward 35SANDILE WELLINGTON DLAMINIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS51,8%
Ward 36DOUGLAS LESLIE ROBERTSDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE37,6%
Ward 37EDITH ELLIOTTDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE50,2%
Ward 38GODMAN NKOSIVELILE DLAMINIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS48,0%
Ward 39MBUSISWA HENCEFORT MKHIZEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS54,0%
Ward 40JABULISILE JOYCE NGUBOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS55,0%
Ward 41BUSANI EDWARD ZUMAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 22 November 2023AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS32,3%

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