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Ward 42

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 42, 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

CHARLES JOHANNES ESAUDEMOCRATIC 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

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

Share of valid votes

Ward 42 ward ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

  1. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE75,1%
  2. GOOD6,4%
  3. PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE5,0%
  4. AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY3,0%
  5. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS3,0%
  6. Others (28)7,5%

All contestants and the source

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Ward 42 ward ballot

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE won the ward in 2021, with 5 794 votes (75,1% of valid votes).

This is the latest verified contest in this ward.

Registered voters
16 385
Votes cast
7 840
Turnout
47,8%
Spoilt ballots
122
How many votes did each contestant receive?36 contestants · 7 718 valid votes · totals of 7 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE5 79475,1%
GOOD4946,4%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE3895,0%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY2343,0%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS2323,0%
CAPE COLOURED CONGRESS2313,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS841,1%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS330,4%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT320,4%
AL JAMA-AH290,4%
Others (26 contestants together)1662,2%
Show all 36 contestants
All 36 contestants36 contestants · 7 718 valid votes · totals of 7 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE5 79475,1%
GOOD4946,4%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE3895,0%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY2343,0%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS2323,0%
CAPE COLOURED CONGRESS2313,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS841,1%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS330,4%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT320,4%
AL JAMA-AH290,4%
DEMOCRATIC INDEPENDENT PARTY220,3%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS170,2%
SPECTRUM NATIONAL PARTY150,2%
CAPE MUSLIM CONGRESS130,2%
UNITED SOUTH AFRICA130,2%
AFRICA RESTORATION ALLIANCE110,1%
CAPE INDEPENDENCE PARTY / KAAPSE ONAFHANKLIKHEIDS PARTY100,1%
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S ALTERNATIVE90,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION70,1%
UNITED PROGRESSIVE PARTY SOUTH AFRICA70,1%
AFRICAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT60,1%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS50,1%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE50,1%
CREDIBLE ALTERNATIVE 1ST MOVEMENT50,1%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT50,1%
INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA40,1%
SIZWE UMMAH NATION40,1%
LAND PARTY20,0%
ONE MOVEMENT FOR CAPE TOWN20,0%
AFRICAN FREEDOM REVOLUTION10,0%
DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY10,0%
THE GREENS10,0%
THE ORGANIC HUMANITY MOVEMENT10,0%
BLACK FIRST LAND FIRST00,0%
ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION FORUM00,0%
OUR NATION00,0%

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, 75,1%.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
StationVoting district
ELSBURY PRIMARY SCHOOL97140382
RIVERTON PRIMARY SCHOOL97140393
LAVIS DRIVE PRIMARY SCHOOL97140416
EDWARD PRIMARY SCHOOL97140427
MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL97140438
BERGVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL97140461
CLARKE PRIMARY SCHOOL97140506

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

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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 .
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.