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Gamagara

8 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.

Gamagara, John Taolo Gaetsewe
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

34,6%–39,8%
39,8%–49,8%
49,8%–55,3%
55,3%–60,3%
60,3%–65,7%

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 Gamagara · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 16 388
Turnout: 62,8%
Registered: 26 362

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE35,6%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS34,6%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS12,9%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE5,7%
NORTHERN CAPE COMMUNITIES MOVEMENT5,5%
All others5,6%

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 CONGRESS43,1%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE34,8%
GAMAGARA COMMUNITY FORUM13,0%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS6,9%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS1,9%
Others (1)0,3%

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: 4 961 (43,1% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 23 135
Votes cast: 11 672
Turnout: 50,5%
Spoilt ballots: 151

How many votes did each contestant receive?6 contestants · 11 521 valid votes · totals of 16 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	4 961	43,1%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	4 005	34,8%
GAMAGARA COMMUNITY FORUM	1 503	13,0%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	798	6,9%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	218	1,9%
SOUTH AFRICAN ROYAL KINGDOMS ORGANIZATION	36	0,3%

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

Gamagara 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	1	7	6
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	2	3	5	2
GAMAGARA COMMUNITY FORUM	0	2	2	0
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	0	1	1	0
Total	8	7	15	8

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 15
Quota: 1 538
Valid votes counted: 23 068

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

Gamagara’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
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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, Northern Cape (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 124 million2023/24

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

52 closed · 5 cancelled · 1 awarded tender notices · 0 awards published · all notices

GM2026/155Closed as published on 11 October 2026
PROVISION FOR MANAGEMENT OF SHORT-TERM INSURANCE FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS
advertised 31 July 2026 · closes 15 September 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
GM2026/154Closed as published on 11 October 2026
Professional Services Support for Gamagara Local Municipality with Water Conversation and Demand Management Plan and Non-Revenue for a Period of Three (3) Years
advertised 22 May 2026 · closes 22 June 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
GM2026/139Closed as published on 11 October 2026
Appointment of a Panel of Not More Than Five (5) Services Providers for Hiring of Plant (Construction Equipment) for a period of Three (3) Years On As and When Required Basis
advertised 23 April 2026 · closes 28 May 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
GM2026/138Closed as published on 11 October 2026
Provision Of Temporary Sanitation System or Three (3) Years
advertised 23 April 2026 · closes 28 May 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)
GM2025/119Closed as published on 11 October 2026
Appointment of a Service Provider for the Supply, Delivery and Installation of Rental Multifunction Printers at Gamagara Local Municipality for a Period Of 36 Months
advertised 20 February 2026 · closes 31 March 2026 · Request for Bid(Open-Tender)

Wards of Gamagara

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

8 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	HENRIËTTE DU PLESSISDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	87,2%	55,3%
Ward 2	KELONEILWE VIRGINIA DITHUPAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	45,4%	60,3%
Ward 3	MOLUSI LINCOLN JAFTAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	62,2%	57,2%
Ward 4	THATAETSILE MICHAEL MOTSOAREAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	47,3%	65,7%
Ward 5	NEO STEPHEN MAGAGANEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	59,6%	34,6%
Ward 6	ANNA MARGARETHA CAETANODEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	69,6%	49,8%
Ward 7	ERNEST THAPELO TIROYAMEAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	63,6%	47,7%
Ward 8	JOHANNES JAMES ROMANAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	53,5%	39,8%

“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.