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Richtersveld

6 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.

Richtersveld, Namakwa
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

41,9%–54,6%
54,6%–56,4%
56,4%–64,3%
64,3%–66,0%
66,0%–83,7%

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 Richtersveld · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 4 509
Turnout: 61,3%
Registered: 7 546

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS46,2%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE27,7%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE20,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,4%
UMKHONTO WESIZWE0,7%
All others3,2%

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 CONGRESS48,0%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE31,3%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS7,5%
NATIONAL ECONOMIC FIGHTERS6,7%
NAMAKWA CIVIC MOVEMENT4,4%
Others (1)2,1%

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: 2 116 (48,0% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 7 420
Votes cast: 4 436
Turnout: 59,8%
Spoilt ballots: 32

How many votes did each contestant receive?6 contestants · 4 404 valid votes · totals of 10 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	2 116	48,0%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	1 379	31,3%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	329	7,5%
NATIONAL ECONOMIC FIGHTERS	293	6,7%
NAMAKWA CIVIC MOVEMENT	193	4,4%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	94	2,1%

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

Details

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

Richtersveld 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	6	0	6	6
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	0	3	3	0
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	1	1	0
NATIONAL ECONOMIC FIGHTERS	0	1	1	0
Total	6	5	11	6

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 11
Quota: 757
Valid votes counted: 8 321

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

Richtersveld’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, Northern Cape (31 councils) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:19 SAST
Fingerprint: ba18a46898e90a664086a7a39268032d1457e3422afeb221d0f01d1d88b0e301SHA-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: Seat calculations: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za.

Source: IEC — List of current ward councillors, Northern Cape (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:22 SAST
Fingerprint: 3c5bac30064914e61007149028adb9d205fa5d2e748d23a2f065a0356e08555fSHA-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 4,0 million2023/24

Audit opinionQualified2023/24 · Auditor-General

116 closed · 13 cancelled tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

SDAT05/NC061/08/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026
SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF ACCREDITED TRAINING FOR EPWP WORKERS IN PORT NOLLOTH - RICHTERSVELD MUNICIPALITY
advertised 28 August 2026 · closes 8 September 2026 · Request for Quotation
KAV03/NC061/08/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026
RE-ADVERTISEMENT SUPPLY AND MAINTENANCE OF KERIO CONNECT MAIL SERVER LICENCE - RENEWAL CONTRACT PERIOD 24 MONTHS
advertised 21 August 2026 · closes 1 September 2026 · Request for Quotation
SDRL01/NC061/08/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026
SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF RIDE - ON LAWNMOWER TO BE DELIVERED TO RICHTERSVELD MUNICIPALITY PORT NOLLOTH
advertised 7 August 2026 · closes 14 August 2026 · Request for Quotation
PN/T01/SP-26/27Closed as published on 11 October 2026
UPGRADING OF SPORT FACILITY - PHASE 2 IN PORT NOLLOTH
advertised 7 August 2026 · closes 31 August 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
KAV02/NC061/08/2026Closed as published on 11 October 2026
SUPPLY AND MAINTENANCE OF KERIO CONNECT MAILSERVER LICENCE RENEWAL FOR CONTRACT PERIOD 24 MONTHS
advertised 7 August 2026 · closes 14 August 2026 · Request for Quotation

Wards of Richtersveld

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

6 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	RYNO DENVER THOMASAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	43,1%	66,0%
Ward 2	MARLENE CATHLENE FREDERICKSAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	43,7%	54,6%
Ward 3	CARETAS SONAMZIAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	55,4%	56,4%
Ward 4	MARIA LOVINA OBIESAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	46,5%	83,7%
Ward 5	FUNEKA YVONNE MABALAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	46,2%	41,9%
Ward 6	CORNELL CHARVETTE KNOPHAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	44,0%	64,3%

“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.