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Ward 5

A ward of Witzenberg. Official results of the 2021 Local Government Elections below (the latest verified for this place), with their sources.

  • Ward 5, Witzenberg
  • 2021 boundaries
MDB 2021 boundaries

Ward councillor

As the IEC's list of current ward councillors names them · read 9 October 2026

HENDRIK JOHANNES SMITDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

The IEC calls its list one of current ward councillors but dates no entry and omits by-election winners. By-elections since November 2016 are in this record; the date a councillor left office is not published with either source.

Member of the Witzenberg Local Municipality Council.

Source: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC — List of current ward councillors, Western Cape · retrieved

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IEC — List of current ward councillors, Western Cape (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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Ward councillors: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), www.elections.org.za.

Share of valid votes

Ward 5 ward ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

  1. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE66,9%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS12,7%
  3. INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA3,5%
  4. VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS3,2%
  5. GOOD3,1%
  6. Others (10)10,5%

All contestants and the source

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Ward 5 ward ballot

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE won the ward in 2021, with 1 274 votes (66,9% of valid votes).

This is the latest verified contest in this ward.

Registered voters
3 981
Votes cast
1 919
Turnout
48,2%
Spoilt ballots
16
How many votes did each contestant receive?15 contestants · 1 903 valid votes · totals of 3 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1 27466,9%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS24212,7%
INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA673,5%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS613,2%
GOOD593,1%
WITZENBERG AKSIE392,0%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY371,9%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE301,6%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE251,3%
DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION OF WITZENBERG INDEPENDENCE241,3%
Others (5 contestants together)452,4%
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All 15 contestants15 contestants · 1 903 valid votes · totals of 3 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1 27466,9%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS24212,7%
INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA673,5%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS613,2%
GOOD593,1%
WITZENBERG AKSIE392,0%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY371,9%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE301,6%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE251,3%
DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION OF WITZENBERG INDEPENDENCE241,3%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS201,1%
CAPE INDEPENDENCE PARTY / KAAPSE ONAFHANKLIKHEIDS PARTY150,8%
BREEDEVALLEI ONAFHANKLIK50,3%
WITZENBERG ONAFHANKLIKE DEMOKRATIESE PARTY40,2%
SPECTRUM NATIONAL PARTY10,1%

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

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IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Western Cape (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.

Elections in this ward

The general election of this ward's delimitation, newest first · IEC results

  1. 2021 Local Government ElectionsGeneral election1 November 2021DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE had the most votes, 66,9%.The IEC’s general-election results file gives votes by party; it does not name the ward candidates.

Voting stations

Where the 2021 local election results for this ward were counted, by voting district

3 voting stations2021 local government elections
StationVoting district
CERESVALLEI CHURCH HALL97410078
BOTHASHALT SCHOOL97530037
ACHTERTUIN PRIMÊRE SKOOL97540184

Each station is in this ward because its voting district is, as the official record places it. Stations can change between elections, and the record holds no station addresses or coordinates for 2021. Open in the voting-station directory

Public money

Projects whose published coordinates lie in this ward; budgets, audits and tenders are published for the municipality as a whole

No project on the national register publishes a point in this ward. Provincial and municipal project registers are not on the record yet, so this is not a statement that no public project exists here.

Budgets, audit opinions and tenders: Witzenberg’s public money. Nothing municipal is divided across wards or attributed to this ward without a source that says so.

Projects: ward level · finance: municipal level

Ward record and boundaries: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) · MDB Wards 2021 (ward delimitation for the 2021 local elections, ArcGIS item 279fbf82a48f46678ddd498627af3f0a), GeoJSON export · retrieved

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MDB Wards 2021 (ward delimitation for the 2021 local elections, ArcGIS item 279fbf82a48f46678ddd498627af3f0a), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
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No licence is stated on this MDB item (ArcGIS licenseInfo empty, 2026-10-07). Closest MDB statement, pending MDB confirmation: the terms on MDB item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923 (Local Municipalities 2021) for municipal/ward boundary data: public use, non-commercial, acknowledge MDB as producer and custodian, changed data not to be passed on as an MDB product .
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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.