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Ward 53

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

  • Ward 53, Nelson Mandela Bay
  • 2021 boundaries
MDB 2021 boundaries

Ward councillor

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

ZWELANDILE PATRICK TSOTSOAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

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 Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality Council.

Source: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC — List of current ward councillors, Eastern Cape (33 councils), 2026-10-09 · retrieved

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IEC — List of current ward councillors, Eastern Cape (33 councils), 2026-10-09 (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 53 ward ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS60,0%
  2. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE20,6%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS11,0%
  4. PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE2,0%
  5. AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS1,2%
  6. Others (17)5,2%

All contestants and the source

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Ward 53 ward ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS won the ward in 2021, with 2 657 votes (60,0% of valid votes).

This is the latest verified contest in this ward.

Registered voters
10 360
Votes cast
4 470
Turnout
43,1%
Spoilt ballots
41
How many votes did each contestant receive?23 contestants · 4 429 valid votes · totals of 6 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS2 65760,0%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE91120,6%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS48911,0%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE872,0%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS531,2%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY441,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS390,9%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT360,8%
DEFENDERS OF THE PEOPLE180,4%
UNITED FRONT OF THE EASTERN CAPE160,4%
Others (13 contestants together)791,8%
Show all 23 contestants
All 23 contestants23 contestants · 4 429 valid votes · totals of 6 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS2 65760,0%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE91120,6%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS48911,0%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE872,0%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS531,2%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY441,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS390,9%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT360,8%
DEFENDERS OF THE PEOPLE180,4%
UNITED FRONT OF THE EASTERN CAPE160,4%
ABANTU INTEGRITY MOVEMENT130,3%
GOOD110,2%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT100,2%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE100,2%
UNITED INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT100,2%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA70,2%
MANDELA BAY COMMUNITY MOVEMENT60,1%
NORTHERN ALLIANCE50,1%
SPECTRUM NATIONAL PARTY30,1%
THE ORGANIC HUMANITY MOVEMENT20,0%
AL JAMA-AH10,0%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION10,0%
AFRICA RESTORATION ALLIANCE00,0%

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

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IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Eastern 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 2021AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS had the most votes, 60,0%.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
SIYAPHAMBILI PRE-PARATORY SCHOOL10300431
COLCHESTER COMMUNITY HALL10460045
ETHEMBENI METHODIST CHURCH10460102
THE FARM TANKATARA (MR. LAKE)10460124
WABELUSI APOSTOLIC CHURCH10460135
AMANZI SCHOOL10510052

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: Nelson Mandela Bay’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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35a6bc1d50830975e9da4132033761b0eda2aa52bc8cea2fcb87ced8be164392SHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
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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.