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Mfolozi

18 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.

Mfolozi, King Cetshwayo
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

41,9%–47,4%
47,4%–51,8%
51,8%–53,9%
53,9%–58,5%
58,5%–61,8%

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 Mfolozi · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 48 866
Turnout: 65,1%
Registered: 76 646

UMKHONTO WESIZWE47,1%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY39,2%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS9,1%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,6%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1,2%
All others1,8%

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 PARTY50,6%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS8,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS1,0%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY0,8%
Others (8)2,2%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

All 18 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: 19 572 (50,6% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 74 081
Votes cast: 39 348
Turnout: 53,1%
Spoilt ballots: 648

How many votes did each contestant receive?13 contestants · 38 700 valid votes · totals of 79 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share	Share bar
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	19 572	50,6%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	14 230	36,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	3 359	8,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS	375	1,0%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	304	0,8%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	272	0,7%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	161	0,4%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT	125	0,3%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	93	0,2%
SOUTH AFRICA VUKA MOVEMENT	69	0,2%
Others (3 contestants together)	140	0,4%	Not compared

Show all 13 contestants

All 13 contestants13 contestants · 38 700 valid votes · totals of 79 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	19 572	50,6%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	14 230	36,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	3 359	8,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS	375	1,0%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	304	0,8%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	272	0,7%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	161	0,4%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT	125	0,3%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	93	0,2%
SOUTH AFRICA VUKA MOVEMENT	69	0,2%
AFRICAN MANTUNGWA COMMUNITY	53	0,1%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	53	0,1%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	34	0,1%

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

Mfolozi 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	14	4	18	13
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	4	9	13	4
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	3	3	0
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	0	1	1	0
Total	18	17	35	17 of 18

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 35
Quota: 2 193
Valid votes counted: 76 742

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

Mfolozi’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 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
Fingerprint: bb0023f5959f28f2e42be2398d7d54d5f07a4785f4c86fea948cb4ef057bbebbSHA-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: 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
Fingerprint: 2f6e5ad3f19791a4da3373d2ab74574e175755fb24d3becfb94d3468ae2dc1b5SHA-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: 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 71 million2023/24

Audit opinionUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · Auditor-General

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Wards of Mfolozi

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

18 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	GOODNESS MPUMALANGA KHUMALOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	63,1%	60,7%
Ward 2	AMOSE MFANISENI MTSHALIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	52,8%	47,6%
Ward 3	Not listed	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	57,2%	58,8%
Ward 4	THOMAS ZAKHELE MDHLETSHEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	46,4%	61,8%
Ward 5	MTHOKOZISENI NTOKOZO NXUMALOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	47,3%	55,9%
Ward 6	CELIMPILO MAKHUNGAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	69,9%	47,1%
Ward 7	BONGANI THOKOZANI NTOMBELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	59,2%	53,0%
Ward 8	TIMOTHY MZIBENI BIYELAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	54,3%	56,3%
Ward 9	SIBONELO GOODENOUGH MTHETHWAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	47,5%	58,5%
Ward 10	SIKHUMBUZO ZWELINKOSI MTETWAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	58,0%	51,4%
Ward 11	PROSPER MZIWAKHE GUMBIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	61,2%	57,5%
Ward 12	XOLANI MICHAEL BHENGUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	51,1%	53,9%
Ward 13	THULAKUSINDA NDIMANDEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	71,9%	50,1%
Ward 14	NORMAN SIBUSISO NGUBANEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	51,0%	47,1%
Ward 15	NHLAKANIPHO CONCOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	49,5%	51,8%
Ward 16	BHEKUMUZI PHIWAYINKOSI SITHOLEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	52,5%	41,9%
Ward 17	WISEMAN FIHLOKWAKHE NJOKOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY · elected at the by-election of 17 December 2025	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	50,9%	47,4%
Ward 18	MBONGENI EMMANUEL SHOBEDEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	43,9%	53,4%

“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.