WardMDB ward ID 191000232021 boundaries

Ward 23

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

Ward 23, City of Cape Town
2021 boundaries

MDB 2021 boundaries

Ward councillor

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

PAUL STEPHANUS SWARTDEMOCRATIC 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 City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality Council.

Source: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC — List of current ward councillors, Western Cape · retrieved 9 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC — List of current ward councillors, Western 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.

Share of valid votes

Ward 23 ward ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE85,7%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS4,6%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY2,6%
CAPE INDEPENDENCE PARTY / KAAPSE ONAFHANKLIKHEIDS PARTY2,2%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS1,7%
Others (15)3,3%

All contestants and the source

2021 Local Government Elections

Held 1 November 2021 · Official results — not current figures

Ward 23 ward ballot

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE won the ward in 2021, with 10 094 votes (85,7% of valid votes).

This is the latest verified contest in this ward.

Registered voters: 19 228
Votes cast: 11 850
Turnout: 61,6%
Spoilt ballots: 65

How many votes did each contestant receive?30 contestants · 11 785 valid votes · totals of 7 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share	Share bar
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	10 094	85,7%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	545	4,6%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	301	2,6%
CAPE INDEPENDENCE PARTY / KAAPSE ONAFHANKLIKHEIDS PARTY	257	2,2%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	198	1,7%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	145	1,2%
GOOD	100	0,8%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT	58	0,5%
THE ORGANIC HUMANITY MOVEMENT	24	0,2%
DEMOCRATIC INDEPENDENT PARTY	17	0,1%
Others (20 contestants together)	46	0,4%	Not compared

Show all 30 contestants

All 30 contestants30 contestants · 11 785 valid votes · totals of 7 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	10 094	85,7%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	545	4,6%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY	301	2,6%
CAPE INDEPENDENCE PARTY / KAAPSE ONAFHANKLIKHEIDS PARTY	257	2,2%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	198	1,7%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	145	1,2%
GOOD	100	0,8%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT	58	0,5%
THE ORGANIC HUMANITY MOVEMENT	24	0,2%
DEMOCRATIC INDEPENDENT PARTY	17	0,1%
AL JAMA-AH	14	0,1%
CREDIBLE ALTERNATIVE 1ST MOVEMENT	6	0,1%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	6	0,1%
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S ALTERNATIVE	4	0,0%
THE GREENS	4	0,0%
UNITED PROGRESSIVE PARTY SOUTH AFRICA	4	0,0%
CAPE COLOURED CONGRESS	3	0,0%
AFRICAN FREEDOM REVOLUTION	2	0,0%
CAPE MUSLIM CONGRESS	2	0,0%
ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION FORUM	1	0,0%
AFRICA RESTORATION ALLIANCE	0	0,0%
AFRICAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT	0	0,0%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION	0	0,0%
DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY	0	0,0%
INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA	0	0,0%
LAND PARTY	0	0,0%
OUR NATION	0	0,0%
SIZWE UMMAH NATION	0	0,0%
SPECTRUM NATIONAL PARTY	0	0,0%
UNITED SOUTH AFRICA	0	0,0%

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

Details

Source: IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Western 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.
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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

2021 Local Government ElectionsGeneral election1 November 2021DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE had the most votes, 85,7%.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

7 voting stations2021 local government elections
Station	Voting district
BLOUBERG COMMUNITY HALL	`97120166`
MELKBOSSTRAND COUNTRY CLUB	`97120302`
KOEBERG LIBRARY	`97120313`
ZONNEKUS HOLIDAY RESORT	`97120368`
SUNNINGDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL	`97120403`
MELKBOSSTRAND HIGH SCHOOL	`97120469`
TENT AT ISLINGTON STREET	`97120616`

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: City of Cape Town’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 7 October 2026

Details

Source: MDB Wards 2021 (ward delimitation for the 2021 local elections, ArcGIS item 279fbf82a48f46678ddd498627af3f0a), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
Retrieved: 7 October 2026, 22:52 SAST
Fingerprint: 35a6bc1d50830975e9da4132033761b0eda2aa52bc8cea2fcb87ced8be164392SHA-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: 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 .
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.