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Umvoti

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.

Umvoti, Umzinyathi
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

39,7%–53,8%
53,8%–54,6%
54,6%–57,3%
57,3%–60,8%
60,8%–67,9%

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 Umvoti · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 35 554
Turnout: 58,7%
Registered: 61 913

UMKHONTO WESIZWE44,8%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY27,5%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS17,0%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4,2%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS2,8%
All others3,6%

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 CONGRESS36,3%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY33,8%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS24,8%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE2,3%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,6%
Others (3)1,1%

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: 11 921 (36,3% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 59 501
Votes cast: 33 511
Turnout: 56,3%
Spoilt ballots: 661

How many votes did each contestant receive?8 contestants · 32 850 valid votes · totals of 94 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	11 921	36,3%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	11 113	33,8%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	8 162	24,8%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	766	2,3%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	511	1,6%
AFRICAN MANTUNGWA COMMUNITY	158	0,5%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	137	0,4%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	82	0,2%

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

Umvoti 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	6	4	10	5
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	5	4	9	6
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	3	4	7	2
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	0	1	1	0
Total	14	13	27	13 of 14

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 27
Quota: 2 418
Valid votes counted: 65 275

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

Umvoti’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 4 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 811 7162023/24

Audit opinionUnqualified - No findings2023/24 · Auditor-General

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

T2026/05/20/WARD01 SPORTFIELD-PHASE 3 COMPLETIONClosed as published on 11 October 2026
CONSTRUCTION OF WARD 01 SPORTFIELD-PHASE 3 COMPLETION
advertised 25 May 2026 · closes 19 June 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
T2026/05/18/SDAMBClosed as published on 11 October 2026
SUPPLY, DELIVERY, INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING ALARM,ARMED RESPONSE AND BANKING SERVICES FOR THE PERIOD OF 36 MONTHS
advertised 25 May 2026 · closes 30 June 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
T2026/05/21/AMSCAClosed as published on 11 October 2026
PROPOSALS ARE INVITED FROM RECOGNIZED REGISTERED PROFESSIONALS TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS FOR PROVIDING ASSET MANAGEMNT SUPPORT AND CONDITIONS ASSESSMENT ON ALL THE TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE CAPITAL ASSETS FOR UMVOTI MUNICIPALITY FOR THE PERIOD OF 36 MONTHS AS AND WHEN REQUIRED
advertised 25 May 2026 · closes 30 June 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
T2026/05/20/WARD05MIG2026/2027Closed as published on 11 October 2026
CONSTRUCTION OF MBOSHONGWENI/MFISHANE ROAD IN WARD 05
advertised 25 May 2026 · closes 30 June 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
T2026/03/06/AISClosed as published on 11 October 2026
Appointment of a registered Professional Service Provider for Animal Impound Services for the period of 24 Months
advertised 10 March 2026 · closes 24 April 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of Umvoti

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	MBONGISENI ALPHEUS MAKHAYEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	33,3%	57,3%
Ward 2	ZWAKUSHIWO MICHAEL ZONDIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY · elected at the by-election of 14 June 2023	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	47,1%	51,9%
Ward 3	THULILE SARAH ZUMAABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	40,5%	62,4%
Ward 4	SILAM VINCENT ZONDIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	61,1%	54,0%
Ward 5	LINDOKUHLE NU ZONDIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY · elected at the by-election of 3 August 2022	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	48,2%	54,6%
Ward 6	SANELE JACOB MAKHAYEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY · elected at the by-election of 5 April 2023	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	47,3%	56,0%
Ward 7	SONNYBOY KHAWULANI NDLOVUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	48,5%	56,8%
Ward 8	PHUMEZWILE SJULA MYAKAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	36,0%	67,9%
Ward 9	LINDOKUHLE EUGENE ZONDIABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	42,6%	53,8%
Ward 10	Not listed	ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	30,0%	39,7%
Ward 11	MBONGISENI RICHARD DLAMINIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	42,3%	57,8%
Ward 12	VUKANI BHEKISISA GWALAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	51,5%	54,2%
Ward 13	SPHIWE SIHLE NDLOVUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 1 June 2022	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	43,2%	58,3%
Ward 14	ZWAKUSHIWO NICHOLUS NDLOVUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	38,3%	60,8%

“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.