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Maruleng

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.

Maruleng, Mopani
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

45,1%–53,6%
53,6%–55,7%
55,7%–61,6%
61,6%–63,2%
63,2%–67,2%

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 Maruleng · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 32 158
Turnout: 55,2%
Registered: 58 900

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS72,2%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS11,7%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE11,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS1,4%
UMKHONTO WESIZWE0,6%
All others3,1%

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 FIGHTERS15,7%
CIVIC WARRIORS10,6%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE9,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS1,7%
Others (6)3,8%

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

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 17 922 (59,2% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 54 886
Votes cast: 31 242
Turnout: 56,9%
Spoilt ballots: 957

How many votes did each contestant receive?11 contestants · 30 285 valid votes · totals of 67 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	17 922	59,2%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	4 765	15,7%
CIVIC WARRIORS	3 197	10,6%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	2 728	9,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	521	1,7%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION	409	1,4%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE	230	0,8%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	151	0,5%
POWER OF AFRICANS UNITY	133	0,4%
FORUM 4 SERVICE DELIVERY	126	0,4%
ABLE LEADERSHIP	103	0,3%

Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Limpopo (CSV) · retrieved 7 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Limpopo (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

Maruleng 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	11	4	15	11
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	4	4	0
CIVIC WARRIORS	0	3	3	0
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	1	1	2	1
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	0	1	1	0
Independent ward councillors	2	–	2	2
Total	14	13	27	14

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 27
Quota: 2 202
Valid votes counted: 55 047

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

Maruleng’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, Limpopo (27 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, Limpopo (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 13 million2023/24

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

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Wards of Maruleng

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	EVA CHRISTINA DU PREEZDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	72,8%	45,1%
Ward 2	SAMSON PENCIL LETEBELEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	36,5%	51,6%
Ward 3	DONALD MOKGOTHOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	68,2%	61,7%
Ward 4	MASHEGO TREVOR TSHETLHAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	37,6%	61,6%
Ward 5	BOREADI ELSIE MASETEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	47,4%	61,6%
Ward 6	KGODISO JAMICAH SEKGOBELAINDEPENDENT	Independents (combined) most votes — winner not identifiable	49,3%	63,2%
Ward 7	MOSHOHLI SHEPART MONASHANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	59,8%	59,4%
Ward 8	MAMORAKE ANIKIE MATHABAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	40,0%	67,2%
Ward 9	MAIMELA REUBEN MAAKAMELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	77,0%	53,8%
Ward 10	TSHEGOFATSO JAVAS MOKGAHLAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	50,9%	61,0%
Ward 11	MAPHOWASE SIDNEY NTEMANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	82,5%	53,6%
Ward 12	MOTLAUPI MOSWETI SELINA RAMMALAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	48,9%	55,0%
Ward 13	SABOLA BISHOP RAGANYAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	54,6%	65,8%
Ward 14	TAOLA IMAS SHAIINDEPENDENT	Independents (combined) most votes — winner not identifiable	45,5%	55,7%

“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.