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Ward 7

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

  • Ward 7, Metsimaholo
  • 2021 boundaries
MDB 2021 boundaries

Ward councillor

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

PORTIA MABATHO MAHLAELAAFRICAN 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 Metsimaholo Local Municipality Council.

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

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IEC — List of current ward councillors, Free State (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 7 ward ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS34,2%
  2. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS27,8%
  3. Independent candidates (combined)22,6%
  4. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4,1%
  5. AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT2,7%
  6. Others (9)8,6%

All contestants and the source

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Ward 7 ward ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS won the ward in 2021, with 428 votes (34,2% of valid votes).

This is the latest verified contest in this ward.

Registered voters
3 572
Votes cast
1 387
Turnout
38,8%
Spoilt ballots
136
How many votes did each contestant receive?17 contestants · 1 251 valid votes · totals of 2 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42834,2%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS34827,8%
Independent candidates (combined)28322,6%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE514,1%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT342,7%
METSIMAHOLO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION302,4%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS292,3%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY181,4%
FORUM 4 SERVICE DELIVERY110,9%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA70,6%
Others (7 contestants together)121,0%
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All 17 contestants17 contestants · 1 251 valid votes · totals of 2 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS42834,2%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS34827,8%
Independent candidates (combined)28322,6%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE514,1%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT342,7%
METSIMAHOLO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION302,4%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS292,3%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY181,4%
FORUM 4 SERVICE DELIVERY110,9%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA70,6%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE40,3%
AGENCY FOR NEW AGENDA30,2%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS30,2%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY20,2%
AFRICA RESTORATION ALLIANCE00,0%
DISABILITY AND OLDER PERSON POLITICAL PARTY00,0%
METSIMAHOLO PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE FORUM00,0%

“Independent candidates (combined)” is one line in the official file for all independent candidates together.

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

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IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Free State (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, 34,2%.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

2 voting stations2021 local government elections
StationVoting district
APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH22750130
FREE BAPTIST CHURCH OF SA22750433

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: Metsimaholo’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.