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Bergrivier

7 wards on the 2021 boundaries. Official results of the 2021 Local Government Elections below (the latest verified for this place), with their sources. The latest national and provincial result here is the 2024 National and Provincial Elections.

Bergrivier, West Coast
2021 boundaries
Turnout, 2021

Turnout, 2021 Local Government Elections, ward ballot

48,9%–51,6%
51,6%–52,6%
52,6%–53,7%
53,7%–56,9%
56,9%–65,4%

Votes cast ÷ registered voters, per ward. Classes split the wards shown into equal groups.

MDB 2021 boundaries · select an area to open it

2024 National and Provincial Elections

29 May 2024 · National ballot · Counted in Bergrivier · official result

Latest verified · National & Provincial

Valid votes: 17 882
Turnout: 60,7%
Registered: 29 822

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE64,2%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE13,9%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS11,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS3,5%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1,3%
All others6,1%

National and provincial elections are a different election from local ones; each is shown with its own year. Full 2024 results

Share of valid votes

Proportional representation (PR) ballot · 2021 Local Government Elections · official result

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE62,1%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS19,7%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE7,1%
GOOD4,2%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS4,1%
Others (5)2,9%

All contestants and the source

Turnout by ward

2021 Local Government Elections

Held 1 November 2021 · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE received the most PR-ballot votes: 9 269 (62,1% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters: 27 541
Votes cast: 15 033
Turnout: 54,6%
Spoilt ballots: 108

How many votes did each contestant receive?10 contestants · 14 925 valid votes · totals of 19 voting districts · final results
Party or contestant	Votes	Share
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	9 269	62,1%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	2 937	19,7%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE	1 060	7,1%
GOOD	622	4,2%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS	606	4,1%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS	226	1,5%
CAPE INDEPENDENCE PARTY / KAAPSE ONAFHANKLIKHEIDS PARTY	96	0,6%
AFRICA RESTORATION ALLIANCE	43	0,3%
SIZWE UMMAH NATION	33	0,2%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	33	0,2%

Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Western Cape (CSV) · retrieved 7 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Western Cape (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.

Council

Bergrivier Local Municipality Council: seats won in the 2021 Local Government Elections, as the IEC calculated them

Seats by party, 2021IEC seat calculation printed 22 November 2021
Party	Ward	PR	Seats	Ward seats today
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	7	1	8	7
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	0	3	3	0
GOOD	0	1	1	0
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE	0	1	1	0
Total	7	6	13	7

2021 seat calculation

Seats: 13
Quota: 2 292
Valid votes counted: 29 783

Proportional representation: each party’s total follows its share of the PR and ward votes; its ward winners count first and PR list members fill the rest.

Mayor, speaker and other office-bearers are not on the record yet

Bergrivier’s office-bearers and PR councillors are not in the record yet. They appear once an authoritative source for them is captured and approved; none are inferred from party lists.

“Ward seats today”: the IEC’s list of current ward councillors and, for the 1 wards that list leaves out after a by-election, the candidate that by-election elected (the list omits by-election winners). Neither source dates when a councillor left office.

Sources: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · 2 official files · retrieved 9 October 2026

Details

Source: IEC — Seat Calculation Detail, 2021 Local Government Elections, Western Cape (30 councils) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:19 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: Seat calculations: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za.

Source: IEC — List of current ward councillors, Western Cape (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
Retrieved: 9 October 2026, 07:22 SAST
Fingerprint: 3e01db389c29c644324ed2b25b6c9815b1a0ec40cdbc0147bb47f5148eed878fSHA-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: 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.

Public money

Budgets, audited spending and audit opinions as National Treasury publishes them for the municipality; tenders it publishes under its own name

Budgets, spending and audits

Total revenue, audited actual—no audited year published

Irregular expenditure, reportedR 12 million2023/24

Audit opinionUnqualified - No findings2023/24 · Auditor-General

No organ of state on the eTender portal is linked to this municipality by an identical name; its notices, if any, are listed under the name the portal prints.

Public projects placed in BergrivierNational infrastructure register; total budget as stated, shown once per project
Project	Department	Stage as stated	How it is placed here	Total budget
Voorberg Correctional Centre	Correctional Services	Design	its published coordinates lie here (2021 boundaries)	R 500 million

Wards of Bergrivier

With each ward’s councillor as the IEC lists today, the party that won it in 2021, and its turnout

7 wards2021 boundaries
Ward	Councillor today	Won in 2021	Share	Turnout
Ward 1	JAKOBUS DANIELSDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	75,6%	52,6%
Ward 2	ADAM JOHANNES DU PLOOYDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	56,6%	53,7%
Ward 3	ADRIAAN DE VRIESDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	78,0%	51,6%
Ward 4	RAYNOLD MATHEW VAN ROOYDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	52,3%	48,9%
Ward 5	MARIO ANDRÉ WESSELSDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	49,9%	53,2%
Ward 6	RHIME LOUIS LAUBSCHERDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE · elected at the by-election of 23 July 2025	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	39,8%	56,9%
Ward 7	JOHANNES JOGEMES MOOLMANDEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE	85,4%	65,4%

“Won in 2021”: the IEC’s ward-ballot results of the 2021 Local Government Elections, the latest general local election with verified results (sources on each ward’s page); by-elections since then are on each ward’s page. “Councillor today”: the IEC’s list of current ward councillors, read 9 October 2026, or, for a ward it leaves out, the latest by-election result.

Municipality record and boundaries: Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) · MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export · retrieved 7 October 2026

Details

Source: MDB Local Municipalities 2021 (ArcGIS item 27bbdd5b041b4ba6b5707dfed5aa3923), GeoJSON export (external site)Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB)
Retrieved: 7 October 2026, 22:58 SAST
Fingerprint: 71b7c5ea0ae57bcc5c729d5072de31ba49a96c11f209781e80247d36ad8e237cSHA-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: MDB terms for municipal and ward boundary data : released for public use with limited restrictions; not to be sold or appropriated for commercial use; may be used in research, publications and value-added products if the MDB is acknowledged as producer and custodian; changed data must not be passed on as an MDB product; faults to be reported to the MDB (SDI Act 54 of 2003).
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.