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Ward 18

A ward of the delimitation used from 3 August 2016 to 1 November 2021, in Metsimaholo. It is not a 2021 ward and is not drawn on today’s map. Official results of the Municipal by-elections, 18 July 2018 below (the latest verified for this place), with their sources.

Boundaries of this earlier delimitation are not in the record.

Its results are below, by election.

No published boundary for: Ward 18, Metsimaholo (2016 wards).

Share of valid votes

Ward 18 ward ballot · Municipal by-elections, 18 July 2018 · official result

  1. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE90,8%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS6,9%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2,3%

All contestants and the source

Municipal by-elections, 18 July 2018

Held · Official results — not current figures

Ward 18 ward ballot

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE won the ward at the by-election of 18 July 2018, with 995 votes (90,8% of valid votes).

This is the latest verified contest in this ward; earlier contests are one selection away.

Registered voters
3 226
Votes cast
1 097
Turnout
34,0%
Spoilt ballots
1
How many votes did each contestant receive?3 contestants · 1 096 valid votes · official result for this area · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE99590,8%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS766,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS252,3%

Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC — municipal by-election results (results dashboard) · retrieved

Details
Source
IEC — municipal by-election results (results dashboard) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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Attribution
By-election results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za.

The IEC’s published result for this area. Party names are shown exactly as the IEC publishes them.

Elections in this ward

2 by-elections and the general election of this ward's delimitation, newest first · IEC results

  1. Municipal by-elections, 18 July 2018By-election18 July 2018RUANDA MEYER (DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE) was elected, 90,8% of valid votes.
  2. Municipal by-elections, 29 November 2017By-election29 November 2017LUIGI GAIGHER (DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE) was elected, 82,6% of valid votes.
  3. 2016 Local Government ElectionsGeneral election3 August 2016DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE had the most votes, 82,1%.The IEC’s general-election results file gives votes by party; it does not name the ward candidates.

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: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC 2016 Municipal Elections — complete voting-district-level results data (zipped CSV) · retrieved

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Source
IEC 2016 Municipal Elections — complete voting-district-level results data (zipped CSV) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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9ec0c4054e8e26530d83bd48b50874fd5a8d013d9fb490599f27ee9ce3e09dd8SHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
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Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on .
Terms
IEC copyright notice (elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice, read 2026-10-07): material may be reproduced in unaltered form only for personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation; commercial use is a breach; all other rights reserved; reuse requests to the IEC Manager Legal Services. No separate terms for results data.
Attribution
Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za — 2016 Local Government Elections.