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Ward 3

A ward of Bushbuckridge. Official results of the 2021 Local Government Elections below (as selected), with their sources.

  • Ward 3, Bushbuckridge
  • 2021 boundaries
MDB 2021 boundaries

Ward councillor

Latest documented: elected at the by-election of 24 June 2026 · IEC result

DAPHNEY FIKILE MAHLALELAAFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS · by-election of 24 June 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 Bushbuckridge Local Municipality Council.

Source: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · by-election results, 24 June 2026 (files and fingerprints on that page)

Share of valid votes

Ward 3 ward ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

  1. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS56,0%
  2. Independent candidates (combined)34,9%
  3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS4,1%
  4. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE1,7%
  5. AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION1,5%
  6. Others (7)1,7%

All contestants and the source

2021 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Ward 3 ward ballot

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS won the ward in 2021, with 1 580 votes (56,0% of valid votes).

This is the result of the 2021 Local Government Elections, as selected. The latest verified contest in this ward is the Municipal by-elections, 24 June 2026.

Registered voters
6 768
Votes cast
2 867
Turnout
42,4%
Spoilt ballots
48
How many votes did each contestant receive?12 contestants · 2 819 valid votes · totals of 6 voting districts · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS1 58056,0%
Independent candidates (combined)98534,9%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1154,1%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE491,7%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION411,5%
ABLE LEADERSHIP130,5%
BUSHBUCKRIDGE LOCALS MOVEMENT100,4%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT90,3%
DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY MOVEMENT90,3%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY50,2%
THE ORGANIC HUMANITY MOVEMENT20,1%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT10,0%

“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, Mpumalanga (CSV) · retrieved

Details
Source
IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Mpumalanga (CSV) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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Data load
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Terms
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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

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

  1. Municipal by-elections, 24 June 2026By-election24 June 2026DAPHNEY FIKILE MAHLALELA (AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS) was elected, 84,6% of valid votes.
  2. Municipal by-elections, 31 January 2024By-election31 January 2024PETROS MAHOMMED MALE (AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS) was elected, 66,8% of valid votes.
  3. 2021 Local Government ElectionsGeneral election1 November 2021AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS had the most votes, 56,0%.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

6 voting stations2021 local government elections
StationVoting district
MBATINI LOWER PRIMARY SCHOOL76170168
HOXANI TRIBAL CENTRE76170258
MAPETEKWANE PRIMARY SCHOOL76170584
MAVIMBELA PRIMARY SCHOOL76170629
MAKHOSANA HIGH SCHOOL76170630
BEJANE PRIMARY SCHOOL76170775

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: Bushbuckridge’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.