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uPhongolo

15 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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  • uPhongolo, Zululand
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 49,4%–50,8%
  • 50,8%–53,3%
  • 53,3%–55,8%
  • 55,8%–57,6%
  • 57,6%–63,6%

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 uPhongolo · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
37 293
Turnout
56,3%
Registered
67 389
  1. UMKHONTO WESIZWE45,0%
  2. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY28,7%
  3. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS16,7%
  4. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE3,8%
  5. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,6%
  6. All others4,2%

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. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY51,7%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS34,3%
  3. NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY4,7%
  4. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE3,9%
  5. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS3,5%
  6. Others (8)1,9%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 663,6%
  2. Ward 1159,0%
  3. Ward 1557,6%
  4. Ward 356,8%
  5. Ward 1055,9%
  6. Ward 155,8%
  7. Ward 554,0%
  8. Ward 853,8%
  9. Ward 453,3%
  10. Ward 252,3%

All 15 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY received the most PR-ballot votes: 17 896 (51,7% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
64 045
Votes cast
35 131
Turnout
54,9%
Spoilt ballots
484
How many votes did each contestant receive?13 contestants · 34 647 valid votes · totals of 83 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY17 89651,7%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS11 87234,3%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY1 6314,7%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1 3583,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1 2213,5%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1930,6%
NATIONAL PEOPLE'S FRONT1480,4%
PONGOLA PEOPLE'S PARTY1380,4%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION730,2%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS370,1%
Others (3 contestants together)800,2%
Show all 13 contestants
All 13 contestants13 contestants · 34 647 valid votes · totals of 83 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY17 89651,7%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS11 87234,3%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY1 6314,7%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1 3583,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1 2213,5%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1930,6%
NATIONAL PEOPLE'S FRONT1480,4%
PONGOLA PEOPLE'S PARTY1380,4%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION730,2%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS370,1%
AFRICAN MANTUNGWA COMMUNITY340,1%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT310,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT150,0%

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

uPhongolo 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 PARTY13215
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS2810
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY022
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE011
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS011
Total151429

2021 seat calculation

Seats
29
Quota
2 320
Valid votes counted
67 258

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

uPhongolo’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 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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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 220 5452023/24
Audit opinionUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · Auditor-General

60 closed · 19 awarded · 1 cancelled tender notices · 10 awards published · all notices

  • 797/08/26Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    EVENT ORGANIZER FOR WOMAN'S DAY CELEBRATION

    advertised 26 August 2026 · closes 9 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • 793/08/26Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    PANEL OF SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR THE PROVISION OF YELLOW PLANT HIRE SERVICE AS AND WHEN REQUIRED, AT UPHONGOLO LOCAL MUNICIPALITY FOR THE PERIOD OF 36 MONTHS

    advertised 20 August 2026 · closes 21 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • 796/08/26Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    PANEL OF GRASS CUTTERS FOR UPHONGOLO LOCAL MUNICIPALITY FOR A PERIOD OF 36 MONTHS

    advertised 19 August 2026 · closes 28 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • 789/05/26Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    PANEL OF FINANCIAL CONSULTANTS FOR A PERIOD OF 36 MONTHS

    advertised 14 May 2026 · closes 12 June 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • 796/02/26Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    REPUTABLE SERVICE PROVIDER TO CONDUCT EXTERNAL INDEPENDENT ANNUAL AUDIT FOR UPHONGOLO LANDFILL SITE

    advertised 26 February 2026 · closes 9 March 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of uPhongolo

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

15 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1Not listedINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY55,8%
Ward 2Not listedINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY52,3%
Ward 3CYNTHIA NTOMBIYEZIZWE MAVUNDLAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY56,8%
Ward 4BHEKINKOSI JACOB THWALAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY53,3%
Ward 5NDUKISEBANDLA PETROS MAVUSOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY54,0%
Ward 6XOLANI HECTARE DHLAMINIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS63,6%
Ward 7THEMBOKUHLE ABEDNEGO NTSHANGASEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS50,0%
Ward 8SIPHO AARON XULUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY53,8%
Ward 9Not listedINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY50,8%
Ward 10Not listedINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY55,9%
Ward 11ZUZILE ZAKHE BUTHELEZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY59,0%
Ward 12WELCOME NTOKOZO RADEBEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · elected at the by-election of 2 April 2025INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY51,6%
Ward 13Not listedINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY49,4%
Ward 14Not listedINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY50,7%
Ward 15Not listedINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY57,6%

“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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Source
MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
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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.