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City of Mbombela

45 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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  • City of Mbombela, Ehlanzeni
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

  • 32,1%–36,6%
  • 36,6%–39,7%
  • 39,7%–41,7%
  • 41,7%–43,5%
  • 43,5%–58,0%

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 City of Mbombela · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial
Valid votes
200 371
Turnout
60,0%
Registered
339 142
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS50,3%
  2. UMKHONTO WESIZWE17,2%
  3. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE14,0%
  4. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS12,5%
  5. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS1,7%
  6. All others4,4%

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 CONGRESS65,9%
  2. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS14,8%
  3. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE13,6%
  4. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS3,2%
  5. AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY0,9%
  6. Others (6)1,7%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

  1. Ward 1758,0%
  2. Ward 1554,8%
  3. Ward 3049,8%
  4. Ward 3747,1%
  5. Ward 1446,2%
  6. Ward 3446,1%
  7. Ward 545,0%
  8. Ward 4344,7%
  9. Ward 4443,5%
  10. Ward 743,4%

All 45 wards

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS received the most PR-ballot votes: 84 658 (65,9% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
318 116
Votes cast
130 261
Turnout
40,9%
Spoilt ballots
1 844
How many votes did each contestant receive?11 contestants · 128 417 valid votes · totals of 283 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS84 65865,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS18 94814,8%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE17 40613,6%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS4 1373,2%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1 1410,9%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT1 0010,8%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION3360,3%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY2620,2%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT2320,2%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA2180,2%
SPECTRUM NATIONAL PARTY780,1%

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

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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

City of Mbombela 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 CONGRESS411859
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS01414
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4812
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS033
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY011
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT011
Total454590

2021 seat calculation

Seats
90
Quota
2 827
Valid votes counted
254 384

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

City of Mbombela’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

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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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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 82 million2023/24
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 City of Mbombela

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

45 wards2021 boundaries
WardCouncillor todayWon in 2021Turnout
Ward 1MILLSON MTHOBISI NGOMANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,9%
Ward 2JABULANI JACKSON MHLANGAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,6%
Ward 3DECEMBER JABULANI NKOSIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS32,1%
Ward 4MACALENI ELVIS MKHONTOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS38,1%
Ward 5WILLIES DUMISA LUBISIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS45,0%
Ward 6TRAVOR BHEKI MOGALEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,2%
Ward 7STEVEN FANA SOKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,4%
Ward 8JOSEPH ANDRIES MKHONTOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,8%
Ward 9TSHEPO SHEPHERD MGWENYAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,7%
Ward 10SABETH GANU CHILOANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS34,6%
Ward 11S'KHUMBUZO LUCAS MZIYAKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,3%
Ward 12ZANELE ABIGAIL MDHLULIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS32,5%
Ward 13ELIJAH MANYATHIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS35,9%
Ward 14KENNETH MMANGALELWA MKHONTOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS46,2%
Ward 15DOROTHEA FRIEDA RIXDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE54,8%
Ward 16KYLE ARTHUR OLIVERDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE43,2%
Ward 17SANLEY VAN DER MERWEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE58,0%
Ward 18THABISO EVANCE MAHLALELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,7%
Ward 19DANNISON BADANILE MKHATSHWAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,5%
Ward 20PRINCE WANDILE MAZIBUKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,0%
Ward 21EMMANUEL NKOSIMPHILE MNISIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42,2%
Ward 22NSIKELELO WISEMAN MYENIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,7%
Ward 23INNOCENT NTOKOZO LUSENGAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,4%
Ward 24MANDLA VONGIE SIBODZAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,1%
Ward 25SIPHO SIDNEY MAKUBELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,8%
Ward 26BHEKIFA WELCOME MKHATSHWAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,1%
Ward 27THEMBINKOSI MAHASHANA MAKHUBELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS33,4%
Ward 28LINDIWE FAITH NKOSIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS35,9%
Ward 29DUMSANE CHRISTOPHER MASILELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,7%
Ward 30ROWAN TORRDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE49,8%
Ward 31JACKOLIN SHABANGUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS39,1%
Ward 32QEDUSIZI EZEKIEL NKOSIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,5%
Ward 33SIBONGILE EVELINAH MAKUSHE-MAZIBUKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS38,1%
Ward 34SABELO JACKIE MANANAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS46,1%
Ward 35MLINDELI VELLY MAZIBUKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,5%
Ward 36WORRY DAVID NDLOVUAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,6%
Ward 37MXOLISI ISAAC MASEKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS47,1%
Ward 38CHARLES PAUL MAZIBUKOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42,7%
Ward 39RAYMOND BOYBOY MHLABAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS37,1%
Ward 40DUDU EUNICE NKOSIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS33,6%
Ward 41CONSTANCE SEBAMBAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS40,1%
Ward 42MDUDUZI HAMILTON MOGIBAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS41,5%
Ward 43ZAKHELE BANDILE ZIMBAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS44,7%
Ward 44NONKULULEKO PRESCIOUS MAGAGULAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,5%
Ward 45NJABULO DENNIS MKHONTOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,7%

“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

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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.