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Nkandla

14 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.

Nkandla, King Cetshwayo
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

49,7%–51,2%
51,2%–53,1%
53,1%–57,2%
57,2%–58,7%
58,7%–66,0%

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 Nkandla · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 34 668
Turnout: 56,9%
Registered: 62 032

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY49,8%
UMKHONTO WESIZWE37,1%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS10,3%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS0,8%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE0,4%
All others1,6%

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

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY58,4%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS34,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2,5%
KZN INDEPENDENCE2,1%
JUSTICE AND EMPLOYMENT PARTY1,0%
Others (4)1,2%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

All 14 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: 19 205 (58,4% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 59 837
Votes cast: 33 430
Turnout: 55,9%
Spoilt ballots: 530

How many votes did each contestant receive?9 contestants · 32 900 valid votes · totals of 99 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	19 205	58,4%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	11 460	34,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	811	2,5%
KZN INDEPENDENCE	687	2,1%
JUSTICE AND EMPLOYMENT PARTY	329	1,0%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	141	0,4%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	139	0,4%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	100	0,3%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	28	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

Nkandla 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	12	4	16	10
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	2	8	10	2
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	1	1	0
Total	14	13	27	12 of 14

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 27
Quota: 2 375
Valid votes counted: 64 104

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

Nkandla’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 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 3,3 million2023/24

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

77 closed · 3 published · 2 cancelled · 2 awarded tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

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Wards of Nkandla

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

14 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	NOKUBONGA PRINCESS MAHAYEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	46,8%	58,7%
Ward 2	Not listed	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	65,5%	51,2%
Ward 3	BONGEKILE THEMBELIHLE DHLOMOINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	68,9%	51,2%
Ward 4	Not listed	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	48,0%	51,9%
Ward 5	LINDELANI NKOSINATHI NGOBESEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	48,3%	52,7%
Ward 6	SIFISO NKOSIYAMI NGOBESEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	50,6%	60,6%
Ward 7	VUKANI SAMSON NGONYAMAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	53,5%	66,0%
Ward 8	LESTA BATHABILE MANYONIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	70,8%	49,7%
Ward 9	SIYABONGA TSEPO PHILANI NGUBANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	57,5%	56,2%
Ward 10	NOKUTHULA PATIENCE MAGUBANEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	54,7%	57,2%
Ward 11	THOKOZANI BHEKUYISE NTOMBELAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	60,6%	58,0%
Ward 12	JACOB SIBUSISO SITHOLEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	70,6%	55,6%
Ward 13	CYPRIAN LINDOKUHLE JALIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	58,7%	58,5%
Ward 14	PHILANI PATRICK NKWANYANAINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	61,2%	53,1%

“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.