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Lekwa

15 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.

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  • Lekwa, Gert Sibande
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 39,7%–41,6%
  • 41,6%–44,7%
  • 44,7%–46,9%
  • 46,9%–48,0%
  • 48,0%–58,3%

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 Lekwa · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
31 381
Turnout
60,3%
Registered
53 036
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,4%
  2. UMKHONTO WESIZWE27,2%
  3. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE14,3%
  4. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS8,6%
  5. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS4,0%
  6. All others6,4%

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

  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,6%
  2. LEKWA COMMUNITY FORUM20,3%
  3. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE13,3%
  4. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS9,1%
  5. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS9,0%
  6. Others (7)6,7%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 458,3%
  2. Ward 1451,0%
  3. Ward 1048,0%
  4. Ward 947,8%
  5. Ward 847,6%
  6. Ward 746,9%
  7. Ward 346,1%
  8. Ward 545,1%
  9. Ward 144,7%
  10. Ward 643,9%

All 15 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 9 568 (41,6% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
51 116
Votes cast
23 467
Turnout
45,9%
Spoilt ballots
460
How many votes did each contestant receive?12 contestants · 23 007 valid votes · totals of 43 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS9 56841,6%
LEKWA COMMUNITY FORUM4 67420,3%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE3 06813,3%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS2 0949,1%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2 0699,0%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT4301,9%
CIVIC VOICE3001,3%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA2341,0%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY2010,9%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1640,7%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE1600,7%
DISABILITY AND OLDER PERSON POLITICAL PARTY450,2%

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

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Source
IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Mpumalanga (CSV) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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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

Lekwa 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
PartyWardPRSeats
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS12113
LEKWA COMMUNITY FORUM066
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE134
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS213
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS033
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT011
Independent ward councillors0–0
Total151530

2021 seat calculation

Seats
30
Quota
1 526
Valid votes counted
45 775

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

Lekwa’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

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IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, Mpumalanga (20 councils) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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Attribution
Seat calculations: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za.
Source
IEC — List of current ward councillors, Mpumalanga (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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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 54 million2023/24
Audit opinionQualified2023/24 · Auditor-General

174 closed · 4 awarded · 2 cancelled tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

  • DTS 05 2026/2027Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of a service provider for drilling of boreholes at rural wards 9,12 & 13.

    advertised 7 September 2026 · closes 30 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • DTS 02 2026/2027Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of a service provider for desludging of 200 VIP Toilets at ward 9.

    advertised 21 July 2026 · closes 14 August 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • DTS 01 2026/2027Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of a service provider for supply & installation of 150 VIP Toilets at ward 13.

    advertised 21 July 2026 · closes 14 August 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • DTS 04 2026/2027Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of a service provider for desludging of 200 VIP Toilets at ward 13.

    advertised 21 July 2026 · closes 14 August 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

  • DTS 03 2026/2027Closed as published on 11 October 2026

    Appointment of a service provider for desludging of 200 VIP Toilets at ward 12

    advertised 21 July 2026 · closes 14 August 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of Lekwa

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

15 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1MICHAEL SIFISO MNGEMEZULUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS44,7%
Ward 2PIET MELUSI RADEBEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,8%
Ward 3MAPASEKA LIZZY MOLABAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS46,1%
Ward 4JACOBUS CORNELIUS STOLTZIndependent · elected at the by-election of 25 October 2023VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS58,3%
Ward 5LITHEKO MOSES MARAGOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS45,1%
Ward 6SMANGA PHILLEMON NGWENYAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,9%
Ward 7SWAZI ALBERT TSHABALALAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS46,9%
Ward 8CARLOS ALBERTO OLIM FRANCODEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE47,6%
Ward 9JOHN DANIEL NKUTAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,8%
Ward 10WILMA VENTERVRYHEIDSFRONT PLUSVRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS48,0%
Ward 11SIBUSISO BLESSING NGQULUNGAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,7%
Ward 12THABANG COLETTE MOTAUNGAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,6%
Ward 13SESANA WITNES MASONDOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,4%
Ward 14DOCTOR ROBERT MANANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS51,0%
Ward 15MALEKOA ROSE MOTLOUNGAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,2%

“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

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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.