Skip to content
Mandate SA — home
Search
Find my wardHow we work
Theme
CountryISO 3166 code ZA2021 boundaries

South Africa

9 provinces on the 2021 boundaries. The latest national and provincial result here is the 2009 National and Provincial Elections (as selected). Turnout in the 2021 Local Government Elections by area, from the official results.

Skip to the table of areas
  • South Africa
  • 2021 boundaries
  • Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections

  • 42,0%–42,5%
  • 42,5%–44,2%
  • 44,2%–46,4%
  • 46,4%–48,5%
  • 48,5%–53,2%

Votes cast on the municipal PR ballot ÷ registered voters. Classes split the areas shown into equal groups.

MDB 2021 boundaries · select an area to open it

Western Cape is shown by its 25 municipal boundaries: the MDB’s province file has an invalid shape for Western Cape, which we do not repair.

2009 National and Provincial Elections

22 April 2009 · National ballot · South Africa · official result

Selected · National & Provincial
Valid votes
17 680 729
Turnout
77,3%
Registered
23 181 997
  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS65,9%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE16,7%
  3. CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE7,4%
  4. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY4,5%
  5. INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS0,9%
  6. All others4,6%

National and provincial elections are a different election from local ones; each is shown with its own year. Full 2009 results

2021 Local Government Elections

Municipal PR ballots across 213 municipalities · official results

Votes cast
11 950 085
Turnout
45,6%
Registered voters
26 203 560

Every voter in a municipality receives its PR ballot, so these figures cover all voters. There is no national or province-wide ballot in local elections.

Turnout by province

  1. Northern Cape53,2%
  2. Western Cape48,5%
  3. KwaZulu-Natal48,0%
  4. Eastern Cape46,4%
  5. Free State45,3%
  6. Limpopo44,2%
  7. Gauteng43,5%
  8. Mpumalanga42,5%
  9. North West42,0%

Find a place

Provinces of South Africa

2021 boundaries · turnout in the 2021 Local Government Elections

9 provinces2021 boundaries
NameTypeTurnout
Eastern CapeProvince46,4%
Free StateProvince45,3%
GautengProvince43,5%
KwaZulu-NatalProvince48,0%
LimpopoProvince44,2%
MpumalangaProvince42,5%
Northern CapeProvince53,2%
North WestProvince42,0%
Western CapeProvince48,5%

Country record and boundaries: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) · MDB Provinces (provincial boundaries, ArcGIS item 2c9c5b4a166d4c6ab148119fe462c127), GeoJSON export · retrieved

Details
Source
MDB Provinces (provincial boundaries, ArcGIS item 2c9c5b4a166d4c6ab148119fe462c127), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
Retrieved
Fingerprint
837d81839bb70eabb155fbf9cfcf65225581455a9c466d3bafcf8c9808dc2169SHA-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 .
Terms
No licence is stated on this MDB item (ArcGIS licenseInfo empty, 2026-10-07). Closest MDB statement, pending MDB confirmation: municipal/ward boundary data for public use, non-commercial, acknowledge MDB as producer and custodian, changed data not to be passed on as an MDB product .
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.