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Nqutu

19 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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  • Nqutu, Umzinyathi
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 45,8%–51,0%
  • 51,0%–52,8%
  • 52,8%–53,9%
  • 53,9%–55,2%
  • 55,2%–60,4%

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 Nqutu · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
44 732
Turnout
54,5%
Registered
83 685
  1. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY39,2%
  2. UMKHONTO WESIZWE36,5%
  3. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS18,7%
  4. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1,4%
  5. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,4%
  6. All others2,8%

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. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY51,0%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,2%
  3. ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS7,0%
  4. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,8%
  5. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE0,8%
  6. Others (10)3,1%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 160,4%
  2. Ward 258,4%
  3. Ward 1357,2%
  4. Ward 1155,2%
  5. Ward 355,1%
  6. Ward 1254,9%
  7. Ward 1054,5%
  8. Ward 1653,9%
  9. Ward 1553,7%
  10. Ward 1953,4%

All 19 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY received the most PR-ballot votes: 21 665 (51,0% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
80 324
Votes cast
43 096
Turnout
53,7%
Spoilt ballots
637
How many votes did each contestant receive?15 contestants · 42 459 valid votes · totals of 119 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY21 66551,0%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS15 38536,2%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS2 9557,0%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS7791,8%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE3420,8%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY3120,7%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1950,5%
FUTURE GENERATION CONGRESS1900,4%
NATIONAL PEOPLES AMBASSADORS1400,3%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT1080,3%
Others (5 contestants together)3880,9%
Show all 15 contestants
All 15 contestants15 contestants · 42 459 valid votes · totals of 119 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY21 66551,0%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS15 38536,2%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS2 9557,0%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS7791,8%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE3420,8%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY3120,7%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1950,5%
FUTURE GENERATION CONGRESS1900,4%
NATIONAL PEOPLES AMBASSADORS1400,3%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT1080,3%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT1030,2%
PEOPLE'S FREEDOM PARTY870,2%
FORUM 4 SERVICE DELIVERY790,2%
AFRICAN MANTUNGWA COMMUNITY680,2%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY510,1%

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

Nqutu 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
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY14519
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS5914
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS033
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS011
Total191837

2021 seat calculation

Seats
37
Quota
2 270
Valid votes counted
83 966

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

Nqutu’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

Details
Source
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 154 million2023/24
Audit opinionUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · 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 Nqutu

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

19 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1ZANELE SITHOLEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY60,4%
Ward 2CYPRIAN SIYABONGA THUSINIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS58,4%
Ward 3LINDOKUHLE MKHWANAZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY55,1%
Ward 4SIYABUSA SIPHELELE LANGAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49,5%
Ward 5MBONGENI EPHRAIM MNGUNIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY45,9%
Ward 6SIMISO BENARD SIMELANEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY51,0%
Ward 7NJABULO MBONGELENI BUTHELEZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY52,6%
Ward 8MLUNGISI INNOCENT KHOZAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY51,9%
Ward 9SAKHILE DEDRICK MASIMULAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY45,8%
Ward 10MENGIWE RONIT NGOBESEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY54,5%
Ward 11SIFISO MSALOFY BUTHELEZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY55,2%
Ward 12SITHEMBILE RADEBEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY54,9%
Ward 13ZANDILE NDLOVUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY57,2%
Ward 14PRIMROSE WINNIE BUTHELEZIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS52,8%
Ward 15JERRY NATHI KHOZAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY53,7%
Ward 16MUNTU CYPRIAN MNGUNIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY53,9%
Ward 17THANDAZANI MICHAEL HADEBEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS52,2%
Ward 18THAMSANQA ABION DLAMINIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY53,0%
Ward 19SIBUSISO MANDLENKOSI ZIKODEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS53,4%

“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.