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Ward 12

A ward of Abaqulusi. Official results of the Municipal by-elections, 18 March 2026 below (the latest verified for this place), with their sources.

  • Ward 12, Abaqulusi
  • 2021 boundaries
MDB 2021 boundaries

Ward councillor

Latest documented: elected at the by-election of 18 March 2026 · IEC result

THULANI PATRICK BUTHELEZIINKATHA FREEDOM PARTY · by-election of 18 March 2026

The IEC’s list of current ward councillors leaves out every ward filled at a by-election since 2021, so this ward’s councillor is shown from the by-election result: who was elected and when, not a confirmation that they hold the seat today.

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 Abaqulusi Local Municipality Council.

Source: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · by-election results, 18 March 2026 (files and fingerprints on that page)

Share of valid votes

Ward 12 ward ballot · Municipal by-elections, 18 March 2026 · official result

  1. INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY62,9%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS20,0%
  3. UMKHONTO WESIZWE PARTY12,6%
  4. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS3,8%
  5. NATIONAL PEOPLE'S FRONT0,6%

All contestants and the source

Municipal by-elections, 18 March 2026

Held · Official results — not current figures

Ward 12 ward ballot

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY won the ward at the by-election of 18 March 2026, with 1 658 votes (62,9% of valid votes).

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

Registered voters
5 350
Votes cast
2 661
Turnout
49,7%
Spoilt ballots
27
How many votes did each contestant receive?5 contestants · 2 634 valid votes · official result for this area · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY1 65862,9%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS52720,0%
UMKHONTO WESIZWE PARTY33212,6%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1003,8%
NATIONAL PEOPLE'S FRONT170,6%

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)
Retrieved
Fingerprint
7396475e6eb49f5cf036b1062d43a21a855ef69404117c23bf82f4085b18aa09SHA-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 .
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
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

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

  1. Municipal by-elections, 18 March 2026By-election18 March 2026THULANI PATRICK BUTHELEZI (INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY) was elected, 62,9% of valid votes.
  2. 2021 Local Government ElectionsGeneral election1 November 2021AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS had the most votes, 58,2%.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

8 voting stations2021 local government elections
StationVoting district
KANDASPUNT PRIMARY SCHOOL43501272
INGWENYANE PRIMARY SCHOOL43501340
BEMBASKOP COMBINED SCHOOL43501362
KWA GWEBU COMMUNITY HALL43502329
ISOLOMUZI SECONDARY SCHOOL43503386
METZELFONTEIN COMBINED SCHOOL43504501
SICEMFUNDO CRECHE43505063
JIMANE CRECHE43505074

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: Abaqulusi’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)
Retrieved
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 .
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.