WardMDB ward ID 525020182021 boundaries

Ward 18

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

Ward 18, Newcastle
2021 boundaries

MDB 2021 boundaries

Ward councillor

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

DAVID XOLANI DUBEINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY

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 9 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC — List of current ward councillors, KwaZulu-Natal (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:22 SAST
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Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: Published by the IEC on its official websites; reproduced as published, with attribution (IEC copyright notice: www.elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice).
Attribution: Ward councillors: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), www.elections.org.za.

Share of valid votes

Ward 18 ward ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY44,0%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS36,4%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS6,1%
TEAM SUGAR SOUTH AFRICA4,9%
Independent candidates (combined)4,9%
Others (15)3,7%

All contestants and the source

2021 Local Government Elections

Held 1 November 2021 · Official results — not current figures

Ward 18 ward ballot

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY won the ward in 2021, with 1 409 votes (44,0% of valid votes).

This is the latest verified contest in this ward.

Registered voters: 6 025
Votes cast: 3 271
Turnout: 54,3%
Spoilt ballots: 69

How many votes did each contestant receive?23 contestants · 3 202 valid votes · totals of 5 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share	Share bar
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	1 409	44,0%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	1 166	36,4%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	195	6,1%
TEAM SUGAR SOUTH AFRICA	158	4,9%
Independent candidates (combined)	157	4,9%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	21	0,7%
ROYAL LOYAL PROGRESS	18	0,6%
ACTIONSA	13	0,4%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT	13	0,4%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	12	0,4%
Others (13 contestants together)	40	1,2%	Not compared

Show all 23 contestants

All 23 contestants23 contestants · 3 202 valid votes · totals of 5 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY	1 409	44,0%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	1 166	36,4%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	195	6,1%
TEAM SUGAR SOUTH AFRICA	158	4,9%
Independent candidates (combined)	157	4,9%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY	21	0,7%
ROYAL LOYAL PROGRESS	18	0,6%
ACTIONSA	13	0,4%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT	13	0,4%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	12	0,4%
PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT	12	0,4%
KZN INDEPENDENCE	7	0,2%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT	5	0,2%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS	4	0,1%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE	4	0,1%
AFRICAN FREEDOM REVOLUTION	2	0,1%
AFRICAN MANTUNGWA COMMUNITY	2	0,1%
COMMUNITY FREEDOM PARTY	2	0,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION	1	0,0%
AL JAMA-AH	1	0,0%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION	0	0,0%
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION	0	0,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	0	0,0%

“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 7 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, KwaZulu-Natal (CSV) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 7 October 2026, 22:38 SAST
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Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
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 — 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

2021 Local Government ElectionsGeneral election1 November 2021INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY had the most votes, 44,0%.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

5 voting stations2021 local government elections
Station	Voting district
ST LEWIS BERTRAND`S HIGH SCHOOL	`43670347`
SIPHUMELELE JUNIOR PRIMARY SCHOOL	`43670392`
SISIZAKELE PRIMARY SCHOOL	`43670785`
NHLOSOKUHLE PRIMARY SCHOOL	`43670796`
SECTION 7 KWA N BACK OPPOSITE MLANGENI SHOPS	`43670820`

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 7 October 2026

Details

Source: MDB Wards 2021 (ward delimitation for the 2021 local elections, ArcGIS item 279fbf82a48f46678ddd498627af3f0a), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
Retrieved: 7 October 2026, 22:52 SAST
Fingerprint: 35a6bc1d50830975e9da4132033761b0eda2aa52bc8cea2fcb87ced8be164392SHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
Data load: Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on 19 October 2026.
Terms: 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.