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Mtubatuba

23 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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  • Mtubatuba, Umkhanyakude
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 40,3%–54,8%
  • 54,8%–57,8%
  • 57,8%–59,9%
  • 59,9%–62,2%
  • 62,2%–65,6%

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 Mtubatuba · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
62 145
Turnout
60,2%
Registered
105 361
  1. UMKHONTO WESIZWE44,6%
  2. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY34,1%
  3. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS13,5%
  4. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2,5%
  5. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE2,1%
  6. All others3,2%

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 PARTY44,2%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,9%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS9,1%
  4. AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY2,2%
  5. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE2,0%
  6. Others (13)5,7%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 1765,6%
  2. Ward 2265,5%
  3. Ward 264,3%
  4. Ward 1863,4%
  5. Ward 1062,2%
  6. Ward 2061,1%
  7. Ward 1561,0%
  8. Ward 1960,8%
  9. Ward 860,2%
  10. Ward 159,9%

All 23 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY received the most PR-ballot votes: 25 053 (44,2% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
101 008
Votes cast
57 869
Turnout
57,3%
Spoilt ballots
1 133
How many votes did each contestant receive?18 contestants · 56 736 valid votes · totals of 88 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY25 05344,2%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS20 94936,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS5 1469,1%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1 2632,2%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1 1192,0%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS5881,0%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT5310,9%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY4940,9%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY4570,8%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT3250,6%
Others (8 contestants together)8111,4%
Show all 18 contestants
All 18 contestants18 contestants · 56 736 valid votes · totals of 88 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY25 05344,2%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS20 94936,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS5 1469,1%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1 2632,2%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1 1192,0%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS5881,0%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT5310,9%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY4940,9%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY4570,8%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT3250,6%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION2270,4%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS1590,3%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT1020,2%
AL JAMA-AH950,2%
DEMOCRATIC UNION PLUS810,1%
NATIONAL PEOPLE'S FRONT600,1%
BLACK FIRST LAND FIRST500,1%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE370,1%

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

Mtubatuba 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 PARTY15419
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS7916
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS044
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY011
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS011
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE011
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY011
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT011
Independent ward councillors1–1
Total232245

2021 seat calculation

Seats
45
Quota
2 509
Valid votes counted
110 359

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

Mtubatuba’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

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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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 275 million2023/24
Audit opinionQualified2023/24 · 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 Mtubatuba

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

23 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1LUCKY XOLANI QWABEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY59,9%
Ward 2BONGINKOSI MKHAWULENI ZULUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY64,3%
Ward 3NTOKOZO PRINCE MLUNGWANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS54,8%
Ward 4Not listedAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,3%
Ward 5SINDISIWE BONGEKILE NGUBANEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY52,1%
Ward 6JERICKO MUZIWAKHE GUMEDEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,8%
Ward 7THEMBISILE QONDENI BJELKERUDAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS45,6%
Ward 8MLUNGISI EUSTICE MNYANGOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY60,2%
Ward 9Not listedAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS57,3%
Ward 10MXOLISI MTHETHWAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY62,2%
Ward 11SIFISO NKOSINATHI VILANAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY55,6%
Ward 12JACKSON MTHEMBENI ZUNGUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY59,3%
Ward 13LINDANI MADONDOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS58,5%
Ward 14MBONGISENI PRICHARD NDLOVUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY57,8%
Ward 15SITHEMBISO MGEXO KHUMALOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY61,0%
Ward 16SENZO ERIC MKHIZEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY · elected at the by-election of 4 December 2024INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY58,5%
Ward 17ISHMAEL MHLABUTHINI MASONDOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY65,6%
Ward 18MKABAYI MDUDUZI ZIKHALIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY63,4%
Ward 19BHEKI MDLULIINDEPENDENTIndependents (combined) most votes — winner not identifiable60,8%
Ward 20SIBONGILE JULLIE SHEZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY61,1%
Ward 21BLESSING PHILANGENKOSI MTHIYANEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY57,5%
Ward 22LUCKY SABELO MSWELIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS65,5%
Ward 23SIYABONGA MKHUMBUZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTYINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY55,6%

“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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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.