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uMlalazi

28 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.

2024 National and Provincial Elections

29 May 2024 · National ballot · Counted in uMlalazi · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 63 273
Turnout: 58,0%
Registered: 111 201

UMKHONTO WESIZWE46,1%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY36,9%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS8,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4,0%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,7%
All others2,4%

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 PARTY54,2%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS32,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS6,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1,7%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS1,7%
Others (9)3,0%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

All 28 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: 28 287 (54,2% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 106 317
Votes cast: 53 208
Turnout: 50,0%
Spoilt ballots: 991

How many votes did each contestant receive?14 contestants · 52 217 valid votes · totals of 156 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share	Share bar
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	28 287	54,2%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	17 170	32,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	3 411	6,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	889	1,7%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	878	1,7%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	578	1,1%
PEOPLE'S FREEDOM PARTY	408	0,8%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	126	0,2%
THE ORGANIC HUMANITY MOVEMENT	118	0,2%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION	87	0,2%
Others (4 contestants together)	265	0,5%	Not compared

Show all 14 contestants

All 14 contestants14 contestants · 52 217 valid votes · totals of 156 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	28 287	54,2%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	17 170	32,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	3 411	6,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	889	1,7%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	878	1,7%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	578	1,1%
PEOPLE'S FREEDOM PARTY	408	0,8%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	126	0,2%
THE ORGANIC HUMANITY MOVEMENT	118	0,2%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION	87	0,2%
ACADEMIC CONGRESS UNION	75	0,1%
INDEPENDENT SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CIVIC ORGANISATION	73	0,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT	61	0,1%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	56	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.
Terms: IEC copyright notice (elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice, read 2026-10-07): material may be reproduced in unaltered form only for personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation; commercial use is a breach; all other rights reserved; reuse requests to the IEC Manager Legal Services. No separate terms for results data.
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

uMlalazi 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	24	6	30	24
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	4	14	18	4
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	4	4	0
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	0	1	1	0
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	0	1	1	0
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	0	1	1	0
Total	28	27	55	28

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 55
Quota: 1 882
Valid votes counted: 103 465

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

uMlalazi’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 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 1,4 million2023/24

Audit opinionUnqualified - No findings2023/24 · Auditor-General

41 closed · 19 cancelled · 11 awarded · 3 published tender notices · 3 awards published · all notices

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PROPOSAL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF UMLALAZI MUNICIPALITY CREMATORIUM FACILITY FOR THE PERIOD OF THREE (3) YEARS
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Wards of uMlalazi

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

28 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	ALEX NJABULO SIBIYAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	52,3%	52,8%
Ward 2	THANDAZANI NHLAKANIPHO SHOZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	72,7%	51,2%
Ward 3	MAZWAKHE MBONGISENI NTULIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	65,2%	55,1%
Ward 4	KHULEKANI KHUMALOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	61,2%	51,9%
Ward 5	SIMO ABRAHAM KHUZWAYOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	45,9%	51,6%
Ward 6	BHEKEZAKHE CLIFFORD MAKHATHINIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	55,5%	51,0%
Ward 7	ZANELE BIYELAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	48,3%	53,0%
Ward 8	ZAKHELENI MFANANINI MHLONGOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	58,2%	47,7%
Ward 9	MBONGISENI DLUDLAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	48,2%	45,5%
Ward 10	BHEKIZENZO XOLANI NTOMBELAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	55,5%	47,4%
Ward 11	STANLEY BASIL LARKANINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	66,5%	50,4%
Ward 12	THOKOZANI HERINGTON BIYELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	50,3%	43,7%
Ward 13	WISEMAN LINDA NGEMAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	55,8%	43,9%
Ward 14	MSAWENKOSI DANIEL DLADLAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	39,6%	51,2%
Ward 15	NIGEL MHLEBENI VILAKAZIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	36,5%	55,6%
Ward 16	SIZWE ABEDNEGO MAKHATHINIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	54,0%	49,5%
Ward 17	INNOCENT QINISO NGEMAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	43,6%	50,1%
Ward 18	STANLEY BONGI DLAMINIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	45,2%	44,8%
Ward 19	SIFISO WELCOME YIMBAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	64,0%	55,7%
Ward 20	PATRICK BHEKANI HLABISAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	36,5%	48,9%
Ward 21	KHULEKANI MTHEMBUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	52,3%	45,6%
Ward 22	STHEMBILE INNOCENT ZIBANEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	49,5%	55,7%
Ward 23	JUSTICE MTHOKOZISI NGEMAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	56,4%	56,1%
Ward 24	MANDLENKOSI BAFANYANA BIYELAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	67,5%	57,1%
Ward 25	MHLENGENI NDLOVUINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	65,0%	58,2%
Ward 26	THAMSANQA MDLALOSEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	45,7%	47,0%
Ward 27	MXOLISELENI MBONGELENI NGEMAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	56,7%	47,9%
Ward 28	SIKHUMBUZO MTHUNZI GASAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	40,5%	35,1%

“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.