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Ward 23

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

  • Ward 23, Newcastle
  • 2021 boundaries
MDB 2021 boundaries

Ward councillor

Not documented in the IEC's list or by-election results

The IEC’s list names no councillor for this ward and no by-election result for it is in the record. Neither source says why; none is shown.

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.

Share of valid votes

Ward 23 ward ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS23,4%
  2. TEAM SUGAR SOUTH AFRICA21,5%
  3. Independent candidates (combined)20,3%
  4. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY16,9%
  5. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS9,9%
  6. Others (16)8,0%

All contestants and the source

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Ward 23 ward ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS won the ward in 2021, with 491 votes (23,4% of valid votes).

This is the latest verified contest in this ward.

Registered voters
4 929
Votes cast
2 125
Turnout
43,1%
Spoilt ballots
30
How many votes did each contestant receive?23 contestants · 2 095 valid votes · totals of 4 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49123,4%
TEAM SUGAR SOUTH AFRICA45121,5%
Independent candidates (combined)42520,3%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY35416,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2079,9%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY432,1%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS351,7%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION231,1%
ACTIONSA190,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE150,7%
Others (13 contestants together)321,5%
Show all 23 contestants
All 23 contestants23 contestants · 2 095 valid votes · totals of 4 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS49123,4%
TEAM SUGAR SOUTH AFRICA45121,5%
Independent candidates (combined)42520,3%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY35416,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS2079,9%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY432,1%
ABANTU BATHO CONGRESS351,7%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION231,1%
ACTIONSA190,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE150,7%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA110,5%
AFRICAN MANTUNGWA COMMUNITY30,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION30,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT30,1%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT30,1%
AFRICAN FREEDOM REVOLUTION20,1%
KZN INDEPENDENCE20,1%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS20,1%
AL JAMA-AH10,0%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE10,0%
ROYAL LOYAL PROGRESS10,0%
COMMUNITY FREEDOM PARTY00,0%
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION00,0%

“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

Details
Source
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, 23,4%.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
HLABANA PRIMARY SCHOOL43670190
PHIKELELA HIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL43670213
ZUZA JUNIOR PRIMARY SCHOOL43670617
KHULAKAHLE JUNIOR PRIMARY SCHOOL43670808

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

Details
Source
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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Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on .
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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.