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Knysna

A municipal area of the delimitation used from 3 August 2016 to 1 November 2021. It is not a 2021 municipality and is not drawn on today’s map. 11 wards on the 2021 boundaries. Official results of the 2016 Local Government Elections 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.

Share of valid votes

Proportional representation (PR) ballot · 2016 Local Government Elections · official result

  1. DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE51,1%
  2. AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS33,4%
  3. CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE5,7%
  4. KNYSNA UNITY CONGRESS2,1%
  5. AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY1,8%
  6. Others (8)5,9%

All contestants and the source

2016 Local Government Elections

Held · Official results — not current figures

Proportional representation (PR) ballot

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE received the most PR-ballot votes: 12 489 (51,1% of valid votes). Seats are allocated from ward and PR results together; seat totals are not shown here.

Registered voters
40 014
Votes cast
25 304
Turnout
63,2%
Spoilt ballots
886
How many votes did each contestant receive?13 contestants · 24 418 valid votes · official result for this area · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE12 48951,1%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS8 15333,4%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE1 4025,7%
KNYSNA UNITY CONGRESS5032,1%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY4361,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS4201,7%
INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA3501,4%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS3361,4%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS1750,7%
UBUNTU PARTY520,2%
Others (3 contestants together)1020,4%
Show all 13 contestants
All 13 contestants13 contestants · 24 418 valid votes · official result for this area · final results
Party or contestantVotesShare
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE12 48951,1%
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS8 15333,4%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE1 4025,7%
KNYSNA UNITY CONGRESS5032,1%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY4361,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS4201,7%
INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA3501,4%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS3361,4%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS1750,7%
UBUNTU PARTY520,2%
PLAASLIKE BESORGDE INWONERS440,2%
SOUTH AFRICAN RELIGIOUS CIVIC ORGANISATION360,1%
SOUTH AFRICA CIVICS220,1%

Results: 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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Attribution
Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za — 2016 Local Government Elections.

The IEC’s published result for this area. Party names are shown exactly as the IEC publishes them.

Wards of Knysna

2021 boundaries

11 wards2021 boundaries
NameType
Ward 1Ward
Ward 2Ward
Ward 3Ward
Ward 4Ward
Ward 5Ward
Ward 6Ward
Ward 7Ward
Ward 8Ward
Ward 9Ward
Ward 10Ward
Ward 11Ward

Municipal area record and boundaries: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · IEC 2019 National Election — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV) · retrieved

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IEC 2019 National Election — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV) (external site)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)
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8d3e8a3c408297327b375b0f5d3ae3b5ddb99b8db1d9bb10a0c4058afbb843f0SHA-256 of the exact file we loaded. Anyone holding the same file gets the same value.
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Loaded, checked against the source’s own totals, and approved by an editor on .
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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.
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Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za — 2019 National and Provincial Elections.