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Ulundi

24 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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  • Ulundi, Zululand
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 41,8%–45,1%
  • 45,1%–49,3%
  • 49,3%–52,1%
  • 52,1%–55,0%
  • 55,0%–58,4%

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 Ulundi · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
54 176
Turnout
55,4%
Registered
98 820
  1. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY69,0%
  2. UMKHONTO WESIZWE17,5%
  3. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS6,0%
  4. NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY3,1%
  5. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,8%
  6. All others2,6%

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

  1. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY67,8%
  2. NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY15,2%
  3. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS11,0%
  4. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS4,3%
  5. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1,0%
  6. Others (7)0,7%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 1458,4%
  2. Ward 557,6%
  3. Ward 256,4%
  4. Ward 1555,4%
  5. Ward 2455,0%
  6. Ward 854,5%
  7. Ward 354,1%
  8. Ward 2153,0%
  9. Ward 1752,2%
  10. Ward 952,1%

All 24 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY received the most PR-ballot votes: 31 729 (67,8% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
94 019
Votes cast
47 524
Turnout
50,5%
Spoilt ballots
697
How many votes did each contestant receive?12 contestants · 46 827 valid votes · totals of 149 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY31 72967,8%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY7 13415,2%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS5 14511,0%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2 0234,3%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4691,0%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT1100,2%
AFRICAN FREEDOM REVOLUTION480,1%
ACADEMIC CONGRESS UNION470,1%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY410,1%
AFRICAN SECURITY CONGRESS400,1%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS270,1%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT140,0%

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

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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

Ulundi 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 PARTY24832
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY077
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS055
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS022
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE011
Total242347

2021 seat calculation

Seats
47
Quota
1 950
Valid votes counted
91 616

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

Ulundi’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

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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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Seat calculations: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za.
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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 106 million2023/24
Audit opinionUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · Auditor-General

50 closed · 5 awarded · 3 cancelled tender notices · 1 awards published · all notices

  • 01-2026-2027Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Installation of council chamber audio conference system

    advertised 24 August 2026 · closes 14 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • RE 18-2025-2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Provision of digital media for 36 months

    advertised 20 August 2026 · closes 16 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • 02-2026-2027Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Supply and delivery of LED goods

    advertised 20 August 2026 · closes 27 August 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • 18-2025-2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Provision of digital media for 36 months

    advertised 4 August 2026 · closes 11 August 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • 16-2025-2026 REClosed as published on 11 October 2026

    Supply and delivery of cattle dip tank chemicals

    advertised 3 August 2026 · closes 17 August 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Public projects placed in UlundiNational infrastructure register; total budget as stated, shown once per project
ProjectDepartmentStage as statedHow it is placed hereTotal budget
Construction of new office buildings; upgrade of the Ulundi and Prospecton labour centres and the installation of water tanksEmployment and LabourTenderits published coordinates lie here (2021 boundaries) · spans 2 wards; the budget is the whole project's, not this ward's shareR 280 million

Wards of Ulundi

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

24 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1PETROS MDUMISENI MTHETHWAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY48,0%
Ward 2MZIWANDILE BONGUMUSA BUTHELEZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY56,4%
Ward 3SENZOSENKOSI MFANISENI BUTHELEZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY54,1%
Ward 4NICLAS DLOKWAKHE MASONDOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY50,1%
Ward 5SIBEKEZELO NHLONIPHO BUTHELEZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY57,6%
Ward 6LALELANI DERRICK KHUMALOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY43,0%
Ward 7JUTSHANA EDWARD XULUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY49,3%
Ward 8ALSON MZWANDILE SIBIYAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY54,5%
Ward 9SIKHUMBUZO MUZUKHONA KHUZWAYOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY52,1%
Ward 10THEMBA NDLELAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY51,8%
Ward 11MELUSI DAVID XULUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY44,3%
Ward 12MGLOBENI MKHIZEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY46,5%
Ward 13NTOMBIFUTHI EUNICE MADELAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY48,2%
Ward 14FISOKWAKHE DLAMINIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY58,4%
Ward 15FIKANOYISE NDAWONDEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY55,4%
Ward 16MANDLENKOSI ISAAC NGCOBOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY50,7%
Ward 17LONDIWE KHWEZI MBATHAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY52,2%
Ward 18SIPHO BONGANI MHLONGOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY45,1%
Ward 19SIYABONGA DOCTOR SIBIYAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY41,8%
Ward 20SIKHUMBUZO WALTER MKHIZEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY49,3%
Ward 21THULANI PATRICK KHANYILEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY53,0%
Ward 22SYABONGA MENZI XULUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY44,2%
Ward 23NKOSINATHI EMMANUEL DLAMINIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY47,0%
Ward 24THULANI VUMEZENKOSI NXUMALOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY55,0%

“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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MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
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Boundary data: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB), producer and custodian. Geometry simplified for display by Mandate SA; the simplified shapes are not an MDB product.