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Mkhambathini

7 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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  • Mkhambathini, Umgungundlovu
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 17,1%–19,2%
  • 19,2%–45,5%
  • 45,5%–49,4%
  • 49,4%–50,9%
  • 50,9%–53,0%

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 Mkhambathini · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
21 757
Turnout
66,3%
Registered
33 413
  1. UMKHONTO WESIZWE47,0%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS32,1%
  3. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY12,0%
  4. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4,6%
  5. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2,1%
  6. All others2,2%

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 CONGRESS63,6%
  2. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS13,4%
  3. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY11,8%
  4. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE8,1%
  5. AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT2,2%
  6. Others (3)0,9%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 653,0%
  2. Ward 150,9%
  3. Ward 749,4%
  4. Ward 448,9%
  5. Ward 345,5%
  6. Ward 519,2%
  7. Ward 217,1%

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 7 794 (63,6% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
31 233
Votes cast
12 552
Turnout
40,2%
Spoilt ballots
300
How many votes did each contestant receive?8 contestants · 12 252 valid votes · totals of 35 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS7 79463,6%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1 64713,4%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY1 44711,8%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE9878,1%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT2642,2%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS440,4%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY350,3%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY340,3%

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

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Source
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

Mkhambathini 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 CONGRESS729
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS022
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY022
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE011
Total7714

2021 seat calculation

Seats
14
Quota
1 752
Valid votes counted
24 522

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

Mkhambathini’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 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, 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.
Source
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 1,1 million2023/24
Audit opinionUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · Auditor-General

35 closed · 1 cancelled tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

  • MKH007/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of service provider for the provision of document storage for a period of 36 months.

    advertised 23 January 2026 · closes 24 February 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • MKH009/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of panel of contractors for electrification for a period of 36 months.

    advertised 23 January 2026 · closes 24 February 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • MKH008/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of panel of attorneys for a period of 36 months.

    advertised 23 January 2026 · closes 24 February 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • MKH004/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of panel of service providers for events management for a period of 36 months.

    advertised 23 January 2026 · closes 24 February 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • MKH006/2025/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Panel of project managers civil engineering consultants for a period of 36 months.

    advertised 23 January 2026 · closes 24 February 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of Mkhambathini

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

7 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1NKOSINATHI MICHAEL MAPHUMULOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS50,9%
Ward 2SIPHIWE NGIDIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS17,1%
Ward 3PATIENCE NONHLANHLA MAPHANGAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS45,5%
Ward 4THEMBALIKHO AARON GWALAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS48,9%
Ward 5NHLAKANIPHO WISEMAN NTOMBELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS19,2%
Ward 6MHLENGI CELEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS53,0%
Ward 7NKOSINATHI EMMANUEL NDLOVUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 6 December 2023AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49,4%

“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.