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Ward 17

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

  • Ward 17, Newcastle
  • 2021 boundaries
MDB 2021 boundaries

Ward councillor

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

MAQILI MHLANUBANZI ELLIAS HLATSHWAYOAFRICAN 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 Newcastle Local Municipality Council.

Source: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC — List of current ward councillors, KwaZulu-Natal · retrieved

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IEC — List of current ward councillors, KwaZulu-Natal (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 17 ward ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS43,2%
  2. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY21,9%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS20,7%
  4. TEAM SUGAR SOUTH AFRICA3,7%
  5. ROYAL LOYAL PROGRESS3,0%
  6. Others (14)7,5%

All contestants and the source

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Ward 17 ward ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS won the ward in 2021, with 1 231 votes (43,2% of valid votes).

This is the latest verified contest in this ward.

Registered voters
5 838
Votes cast
2 891
Turnout
49,5%
Spoilt ballots
42
How many votes did each contestant receive?19 contestants · 2 849 valid votes · totals of 4 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS1 23143,2%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY62421,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS59020,7%
TEAM SUGAR SOUTH AFRICA1053,7%
ROYAL LOYAL PROGRESS853,0%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS632,2%
Independent candidates (combined)461,6%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE220,8%
ACTIONSA190,7%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA180,6%
Others (9 contestants together)461,6%
Show all 19 contestants
All 19 contestants19 contestants · 2 849 valid votes · totals of 4 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS1 23143,2%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY62421,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS59020,7%
TEAM SUGAR SOUTH AFRICA1053,7%
ROYAL LOYAL PROGRESS853,0%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS632,2%
Independent candidates (combined)461,6%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE220,8%
ACTIONSA190,7%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA180,6%
PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT160,6%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT90,3%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION60,2%
AFRICAN MANTUNGWA COMMUNITY50,2%
AL JAMA-AH40,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT30,1%
AFRICAN FREEDOM REVOLUTION10,0%
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION10,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS10,0%

“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, KwaZulu-Natal (CSV) · retrieved

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IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, KwaZulu-Natal (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, 43,2%.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

4 voting stations2021 local government elections
StationVoting district
SEBENZANI JUNIOR PRIMARY SCHOOL43670426
SESIYABONGA HIGH SCHOOL43670459
MZAMO HIGH SCHOOL43670774
KINGDOM BIBLE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL43670831

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: Newcastle’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.