Local municipalityMDB municipality code WC0342021 boundaries
Swellendam
6 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.
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE received the most PR-ballot votes: 6 219 (52,3% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.
Registered voters
20 647
Votes cast
12 174
Turnout
59,0%
Spoilt ballots
284
How many votes did each contestant receive?9 contestants · 11 890 valid votes · totals of 16 voting districts · final results
Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Western Cape (CSV) · retrieved
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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.
Council
Swellendam 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
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
Swellendam’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.
The ward seats today differ from the 2021 calculation: a ward can change hands at a by-election, and a ward with no listed councillor and no by-election in the record is left out of the count.
“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
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Attribution
Seat calculations: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za.
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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
“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
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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.