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Ward 78

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 78, 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

GOAWA TIMMDEMOCRATIC 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 78 ward ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

  1. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE61,8%
  2. CAPE COLOURED CONGRESS10,0%
  3. GOOD8,4%
  4. AL JAMA-AH5,7%
  5. AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY3,5%
  6. Others (26)10,5%

All contestants and the source

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Ward 78 ward ballot

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE won the ward in 2021, with 4 836 votes (61,8% of valid votes).

This is the latest verified contest in this ward.

Registered voters
15 053
Votes cast
7 908
Turnout
52,5%
Spoilt ballots
88

Share of valid votes

Official

Each contestant's votes as a share of the ballot's valid votes. Unit: share of valid votes (%), of 7 820 valid votes.

Source: IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Western Cape (CSV) (IEC) · 2021 Local Government Elections, Ward 78 ward ballot · approved 19 October 2026Ward boundaries change at each delimitation, so this ward's result is compared only with contests on the same boundaries.
How many votes did each contestant receive?32 contestants · 7 820 valid votes · totals of 6 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4 83661,8%
CAPE COLOURED CONGRESS77910,0%
GOOD6598,4%
AL JAMA-AH4455,7%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY2773,5%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE2453,1%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS1552,0%
AFRICA RESTORATION ALLIANCE991,3%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT700,9%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS670,9%
Others (22 contestants together)1882,4%
Show all 32 contestants
All 32 contestants32 contestants · 7 820 valid votes · totals of 6 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4 83661,8%
CAPE COLOURED CONGRESS77910,0%
GOOD6598,4%
AL JAMA-AH4455,7%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY2773,5%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE2453,1%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS1552,0%
AFRICA RESTORATION ALLIANCE991,3%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT700,9%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS670,9%
CAPE MUSLIM CONGRESS350,4%
CAPE INDEPENDENCE PARTY / KAAPSE ONAFHANKLIKHEIDS PARTY270,3%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS220,3%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS190,2%
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S ALTERNATIVE140,2%
INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA120,2%
UNITED PROGRESSIVE PARTY SOUTH AFRICA90,1%
DEMOCRATIC INDEPENDENT PARTY80,1%
AFRICAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT60,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION60,1%
CREDIBLE ALTERNATIVE 1ST MOVEMENT50,1%
LAND PARTY40,1%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT40,1%
SIZWE UMMAH NATION30,0%
THE ORGANIC HUMANITY MOVEMENT30,0%
AFRICAN FREEDOM REVOLUTION20,0%
ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION FORUM20,0%
OUR NATION20,0%
THE GREENS20,0%
UNITED SOUTH AFRICA20,0%
SPECTRUM NATIONAL PARTY10,0%
DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY00,0%

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, 61,8%.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

6 voting stations2021 local government elections
StationVoting district
HARVESTER-PRIMARY SCHOOL97091286
PORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL97091309
PORTLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL97091400
MERRYDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL97091635
SPRINGDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL97091646
WEST END PRIMARY SCHOOL97091679

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.