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Emalahleni

34 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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  • Emalahleni, Nkangala
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 23,0%–33,5%
  • 33,5%–37,2%
  • 37,2%–40,4%
  • 40,4%–44,4%
  • 44,4%–56,4%

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 Emalahleni · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
118 642
Turnout
58,9%
Registered
203 797
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,6%
  2. UMKHONTO WESIZWE19,2%
  3. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE17,7%
  4. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS14,7%
  5. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS1,9%
  6. All others6,0%

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 CONGRESS50,8%
  2. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS20,8%
  3. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE18,3%
  4. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS5,5%
  5. AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS1,1%
  6. Others (11)3,5%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 3456,4%
  2. Ward 2453,6%
  3. Ward 3349,6%
  4. Ward 2048,1%
  5. Ward 2546,6%
  6. Ward 1745,1%
  7. Ward 1844,4%
  8. Ward 2644,0%
  9. Ward 1243,4%
  10. Ward 2343,3%

All 34 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 36 665 (50,8% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
186 763
Votes cast
73 535
Turnout
39,4%
Spoilt ballots
1 398
How many votes did each contestant receive?16 contestants · 72 137 valid votes · totals of 120 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36 66550,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS14 99420,8%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE13 19818,3%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS3 9445,5%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS7801,1%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY6350,9%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION4720,7%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT3340,5%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY3090,4%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT2880,4%
Others (6 contestants together)5180,7%
Show all 16 contestants
All 16 contestants16 contestants · 72 137 valid votes · totals of 120 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36 66550,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS14 99420,8%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE13 19818,3%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS3 9445,5%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS7801,1%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY6350,9%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION4720,7%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT3340,5%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY3090,4%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT2880,4%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE2320,3%
DEFENDERS OF THE PEOPLE1020,1%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION670,1%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS590,1%
AFRICA RESTORATION ALLIANCE300,0%
AFRICAN BASIC REPUBLICANS280,0%

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

Emalahleni 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 CONGRESS28735
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS01414
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE6713
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS044
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY011
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS011
Total343468

2021 seat calculation

Seats
68
Quota
2 096
Valid votes counted
142 491

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

Emalahleni’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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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 1,6 billion2023/24
Audit opinionUnqualified - Emphasis of Matter items2023/24 · Auditor-General

No organ of state on the eTender portal is linked to this municipality by an identical name; its notices, if any, are listed under the name the portal prints.

Wards of Emalahleni

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

34 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1NTSWELENG STUURMAN TLAPYAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS34,5%
Ward 2NTSHINTSHA RONALD THOBELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,7%
Ward 3Not listedAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS32,8%
Ward 4JUSTISE JONAS MASILELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,2%
Ward 5WALTER NOMPUMELELO MOELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,1%
Ward 6TSHEPO ERICK MASEKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS38,4%
Ward 7RUDOLF SELEME MEKOAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,5%
Ward 8XOLANI ARNOLD NKOSIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS33,5%
Ward 9ANNAH JOHANNAH MTSWENIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,4%
Ward 10CECILIA LIZZY MARABAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS30,7%
Ward 11VICTOR MKHULU SOKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,3%
Ward 12LUCKY MAGEDI TOLOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,4%
Ward 13SIMPHIWE AMOS MTHIMUNYEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42,4%
Ward 14GIVEN SIBUSISO KOKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS29,5%
Ward 15NOMBUSO HAPPINESS MOKWANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,2%
Ward 16Not listedAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,2%
Ward 17Not listedAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS45,1%
Ward 18SALOMI HESTER KRIELDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE44,4%
Ward 19SIDNEY TSHOGANE TJATJIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS35,4%
Ward 20MAUREEN SCHEEPERSDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE48,1%
Ward 21DUMISANI DOMINIC MATHABAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,6%
Ward 22ANTHONIE JOHANNES JACOB BRITSDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE23,0%
Ward 23KLAAS MAKERENG MBETEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,3%
Ward 24Not listedDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE53,6%
Ward 25SIPHO CLIFFORD MASEKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS46,6%
Ward 26SUSANNA HENDRINA LIEBENBERGDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE · elected at the by-election of 1 October 2025AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS44,0%
Ward 27LUCAS DZONDZIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,9%
Ward 28DORAH MBONAYINI MABENAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,4%
Ward 29BAFANA TIMOTHY LUKHELEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,7%
Ward 30ZANELE PETTY PATRICIA MNGUBEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS30,6%
Ward 31KHABO BETTY MAPHOSAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS30,7%
Ward 32THEMBI CHRISTINA SHABALALAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS33,9%
Ward 33PATRICIA KIM FADUKDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE49,6%
Ward 34LIZELLE STEYNDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE56,4%

“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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MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
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Boundary data: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB), producer and custodian. Geometry simplified for display by Mandate SA; the simplified shapes are not an MDB product.