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Ward 85

A ward of the delimitation used from 3 August 2016 to 1 November 2021, in City of Johannesburg. It is not a 2021 ward and is not drawn on today’s map. Official results of the Municipal by-elections, 23 May 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 85, City of Johannesburg (2016 wards).

Share of valid votes

Ward 85 ward ballot · Municipal by-elections, 23 May 2018 · official result

  1. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE75,6%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS15,9%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS8,5%

All contestants and the source

Municipal by-elections, 23 May 2018

Held · Official results — not current figures

Ward 85 ward ballot

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE won the ward at the by-election of 23 May 2018, with 3 429 votes (75,6% of valid votes).

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

Registered voters
17 109
Votes cast
4 558
Turnout
26,6%
Spoilt ballots
22
How many votes did each contestant receive?3 contestants · 4 536 valid votes · official result for this area · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE3 42975,6%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS72015,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS3878,5%

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

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

  1. Municipal by-elections, 23 May 2018By-election23 May 2018SONJA MEYER (DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE) was elected, 75,6% of valid votes.
  2. 2016 Local Government ElectionsGeneral election3 August 2016DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE had the most votes, 73,9%.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: City of Johannesburg’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.
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
Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za — 2016 Local Government Elections.