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Msinga

21 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.

2024 National and Provincial Elections

29 May 2024 · National ballot · Counted in Msinga · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 51 137
Turnout: 57,2%
Registered: 90 962

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY52,2%
UMKHONTO WESIZWE35,3%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS7,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1,6%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,3%
All others1,7%

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

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY68,1%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS26,2%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS3,1%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,0%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE0,5%
Others (7)1,1%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

All 21 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held 1 November 2021 · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY received the most PR-ballot votes: 32 546 (68,1% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 86 107
Votes cast: 48 956
Turnout: 56,9%
Spoilt ballots: 1 193

How many votes did each contestant receive?12 contestants · 47 763 valid votes · totals of 144 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	32 546	68,1%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	12 500	26,2%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	1 477	3,1%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	463	1,0%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	240	0,5%
JUSTICE AND EMPLOYMENT PARTY	142	0,3%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	120	0,3%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	90	0,2%
NATIONAL PEOPLE'S FRONT	61	0,1%
AFRICAN MANTUNGWA COMMUNITY	53	0,1%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	49	0,1%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	22	0,0%

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.
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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

Msinga 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
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	20	7	27	19
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	0	11	11	0
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	0	1	1	0
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	1	1	0
Independent ward councillors	1	–	1	1
Total	21	20	41	20 of 21

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 41
Quota: 2 365
Valid votes counted: 94 590

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

Msinga’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 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 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
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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
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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 12 million2023/24

Audit opinionUnqualified - No findings2023/24 · Auditor-General

357 closed · 11 cancelled · 10 awarded · 3 published tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

MS/2026/2027/136/951/TAdvertised as published on 11 October 2026
Construction of Stormwater Drainage for Msinga Main Offices
advertised 7 October 2026 · closes 23 October 2026 · KwaZulu-Natal · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
MS/2026/2027/012/951/TAdvertised as published on 11 October 2026
Construction og Luphando Access Road
advertised 23 September 2026 · closes 22 October 2026 · KwaZulu-Natal · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
MS/2026/2027/027/951/TClosed as published on 11 October 2026
to drill and equip a borehole called nzimane (ward 03)
advertised 17 September 2026 · closes 23 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
MS/2026/2027/143/951/TClosed as published on 11 October 2026
drilling and equipping of esifuleni borehole ?(ward 19)
advertised 17 September 2026 · closes 23 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
MS/2026/2027/142/951/TClosed as published on 11 October 2026
drilling and equipping of kwalatha borehole (ward 12)
advertised 17 September 2026 · closes 23 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of Msinga

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

21 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	MBUSO BUTHELEZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	76,1%	53,2%
Ward 2	THENJIWE BUSISIWE MBATHAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	59,7%	52,9%
Ward 3	EPHRAIM MFANISENI MDLULIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	75,5%	61,1%
Ward 4	MHAWUKELENI WELLINGTON SOKHELAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	64,1%	55,2%
Ward 5	VINCENT SITHEMBISO NDLOVUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	65,9%	59,6%
Ward 6	PHELELANI DLADLAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	68,7%	54,6%
Ward 7	SIYABONGA PROFFESOR LANGAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	74,7%	55,0%
Ward 8	FUNEYAKHE ZUMAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	69,3%	59,3%
Ward 9	MHLABUNZIMA SAMUEL KHOZAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	69,0%	54,6%
Ward 10	BONGANI DUMAKUDEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	75,7%	73,7%
Ward 11	Not listed	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	59,5%	63,4%
Ward 12	LUNGISANI BLESSING NTULIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	59,0%	61,4%
Ward 13	DAUGRAS MLETHENI NDLOVUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	66,4%	57,9%
Ward 14	THOKOZANI NDUDUZO SOKHELAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	59,1%	59,3%
Ward 15	MPHINDISENI MTHANDENI MYEZAINDEPENDENT	Independents (combined) most votes — winner not identifiable	33,3%	64,0%
Ward 16	SIFUNDO GREGORY MASIMULAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	56,8%	53,5%
Ward 17	NKOSIKHONA MDUMISENI XIMBAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	87,7%	54,7%
Ward 18	FRANCE FELAMANDA NDLOVUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	50,4%	51,8%
Ward 19	TEMPLETON LINDOKUHLE KUNENEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	81,5%	53,3%
Ward 20	THOKOZANI MOSES MABASOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	71,6%	52,5%
Ward 21	MZOKHONA EMMANUEL MKHIZEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	65,8%	55,5%

“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.