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Greater Kokstad

10 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.

Greater Kokstad, Harry Gwala
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

36,9%–41,8%
41,8%–46,7%
46,7%–52,7%
52,7%–54,6%
54,6%–55,8%

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 Greater Kokstad · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 26 362
Turnout: 56,5%
Registered: 47 405

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS54,6%
UMKHONTO WESIZWE13,7%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE12,7%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS11,7%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE1,2%
All others6,1%

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

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS59,2%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS21,2%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE11,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS1,9%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT1,3%
Others (5)4,6%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

2021 Local Government Elections

Held 1 November 2021 · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 11 888 (59,2% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 43 691
Votes cast: 20 676
Turnout: 47,3%
Spoilt ballots: 597

How many votes did each contestant receive?10 contestants · 20 079 valid votes · totals of 37 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	11 888	59,2%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	4 249	21,2%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	2 359	11,7%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS	380	1,9%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	270	1,3%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE	266	1,3%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	259	1,3%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	232	1,2%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	150	0,7%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	26	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

Greater Kokstad 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
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	10	2	12	10
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	4	4	0
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	0	2	2	0
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS	0	1	1	0
Total	10	9	19	10

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 19
Quota: 2 104
Valid votes counted: 39 970

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

Greater Kokstad’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
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 4,6 million2023/24

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

75 closed · 53 awarded · 15 cancelled · 5 published tender notices · 17 awards published · all notices

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Wards of Greater Kokstad

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

10 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	PHUMZILE NOCANDAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	66,5%	46,4%
Ward 2	BHEKOKWAKHE TRINITY NOZAZAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	70,1%	55,8%
Ward 3	NOKUPHILA MDAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	50,4%	39,8%
Ward 4	AKHONA YOLISWA JIKAZIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	57,7%	49,9%
Ward 5	MAKHUZE HLAKANYANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	66,4%	46,7%
Ward 6	NTOMBIKHONA MNGONYAMAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	56,7%	53,4%
Ward 7	SIMLINDILE NJISANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	58,4%	36,9%
Ward 8	MARCUS NEVILLE LWANDA MADIKIZELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	63,7%	41,8%
Ward 9	BONGIWE PRUDENCE GUGWANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	52,7%	52,7%
Ward 10	ZODIDI ROSEMARY TSHAZIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	55,3%	54,6%

“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 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.