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Phadzima

ANC leads the vote

82.3%vote share

2000 results

2000

Council seats

Seat allocation unavailable.The vote breakdown is below.

Vote breakdown

Combined ballot votes

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
82.3%142 057 votes
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE
6.3%10 795 votes
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY
3.4%5 906 votes
Other: show remaining parties: hide remaining parties8.0%13 805 votes
XIMOKO PARTY
1.9%3 345 votes
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA
1.7%2 866 votes
LEADERSHIP FORUM
1.5%2 557 votes
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT
1.4%2 338 votes
INDEPENDENTS
0.9%1 496 votes
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION
0.7%1 203 votes

How the vote changed

Other

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2000Vote %
ANC82.3%—
DA6.3%—
ACDP3.4%—
XIMOKO PARTY1.9%—
PAC1.7%—
Other4.4%—
History data & sources

Ward + municipal PR votes. Connecting bands show the same party’s share or seats between elections, not individual voters moving between parties. Select a year to inspect its values; use the year selector in the results section to explore its places.

The chart names the five largest parties across these elections. The vote list also names parties gaining at least 2 percentage points since the previous election; remaining votes are combined under Other. Other’s change compares the same group of parties in both elections. Missing values remain unavailable.

  • All points use the same ballot basis. Ballot totals are not counts of individual voters.
  • Missing or grouped party rows remain gaps unless a complete, ungrouped list establishes zero votes.
  • Municipal boundaries can change between elections. Published area results are not boundary-adjusted.
All parties & exact values

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Wards in Makhado

35 wards

What is a ward?

One ward elects one councillor to the municipal council.

A ward

A part of a local or metro municipality. Its councillor represents residents on that council.

One seat

The ward candidate with the most votes wins, even with less than half the votes.

Winning a ward does not mean winning control of the whole council. The council also includes PR councillors.

IEC guide to council seats
Ward 1
DA49.8%Leading candidate: MARIA ALETTA HELM
ANC41.1%
Lead: 353 votes
Ward 2
ANC89.6%Leading candidate: MASALA NORMAN MABILA
PAC2.6%
Lead: 3 734 votes
Ward 3
ANC90.8%Leading candidate: MUTHAKHI ISAIA MPHAPHULI
DA4.9%
Lead: 4 466 votes
Ward 4
ANC89.7%Leading candidate: MASHUDU MICHAEL MAKHADO
DA4.3%
Lead: 4 576 votes
Ward 5
ANC86.8%Leading candidate: PATRICK SIKHUTSHI
DA4.3%
Lead: 3 863 votes
Ward 6
ANC68.0%Leading candidate: ADAM AMED CHAYA
DA28.8%
Lead: 1 556 votes
Ward 7
ANC86.0%Leading candidate: MOHALE SAMUEL MAFELA
UDM5.2%
Lead: 5 135 votes
Ward 8
ANC91.7%Leading candidate: SIRIBA SAMSON RAMBAU
ACDP3.1%
Lead: 4 939 votes
Ward 9
ANC87.7%Leading candidate: MASHUDU DAVID MULOVHEDZI
ACDP4.6%
Lead: 4 293 votes
Ward 10
ANC82.7%Leading candidate: MADUME ELVIS LEBEA
UDM5.3%
Lead: 4 101 votes
Ward 11
ANC76.6%Leading candidate: MIRINGO PATRICK MAZIBUKO
XIMOKO PARTY14.3%
Lead: 3 350 votes
Ward 12
ANC80.1%Leading candidate: TSAKANI JOYCE HLUNGWANI
ACDP6.1%
Lead: 2 436 votes
Ward 13
ANC76.6%Leading candidate: FARISANI DAVID MUTAVHATSINDI
XIMOKO PARTY8.7%
Lead: 3 771 votes
Ward 14
ANC89.7%Leading candidate: NDAHENI ELIZABETH NGOBENI
XIMOKO PARTY4.0%
Lead: 4 440 votes
Ward 15
ANC62.2%Leading candidate: FALAZA JOSEPH RIKHOTSO
XIMOKO PARTY18.2%
Lead: 1 888 votes
Ward 16
ANC90.2%Leading candidate: NDITSHENI WILSON RAMANUGU
DA3.4%
Lead: 4 758 votes
Ward 17
ANC90.4%Leading candidate: FAMANDA GIDEON NGWENYA
ACDP4.7%
Lead: 4 099 votes
Ward 18
ANC82.3%Leading candidate: MAGEZI JOSEPH BALOYI
XIMOKO PARTY7.8%
Lead: 3 150 votes
Ward 19
ANC84.6%Leading candidate: MAKUNGO THOMAS MUNYAI
PAC5.0%
Lead: 3 504 votes
Ward 20
ANC82.1%Leading candidate: SAMSON RULANI BALOYI
ACDP5.4%
Lead: 2 840 votes
Ward 21
ANC61.0%
INDEPENDENTS27.9%
Lead: 1 588 votes
Ward 22
ANC81.1%Leading candidate: KHAMUSI DONALD MAUBA
ACDP9.9%
Lead: 3 924 votes
Ward 23
ANC83.9%Leading candidate: MUDZUNGA THOMAS MUNTSWU
LEADERSHIP FORUM5.5%
Lead: 3 703 votes
Ward 24
ANC85.7%Leading candidate: NNDANDULANI JOAS MUROVHI
DA9.5%
Lead: 3 780 votes
Ward 25
ANC88.4%Leading candidate: NTSHENGEDZENI RUFUS KHARIDZHA
LEADERSHIP FORUM4.0%
Lead: 5 146 votes
Ward 26
ANC79.4%Leading candidate: NTAVHANYENI SAMUEL MUNYAI
DA10.4%
Lead: 3 474 votes
Ward 27
ANC72.3%Leading candidate: NTSHENGEDZENI ALBERT MATODZI
DA18.5%
Lead: 2 068 votes
Ward 28
ANC86.4%Leading candidate: MUSHAVHELA ALBERT MUVHUMBE
ACDP7.4%
Lead: 4 552 votes
Ward 29
ANC80.4%Leading candidate: MUTHUPHEI ISAAC KUTAMA
DA13.2%
Lead: 3 606 votes
Ward 30
ANC72.2%Leading candidate: ALUONESWI RECKSON MUDAU
DA14.7%
Lead: 3 177 votes
Ward 31
ANC88.9%Leading candidate: PHILLIP PHASWANA
DA5.2%
Lead: 4 533 votes
Ward 32
ANC89.1%Leading candidate: MUTUWAFHETHU MERIAM SIKHWARI
DA7.8%
Lead: 3 340 votes
Ward 33
ANC82.0%Leading candidate: MUKOSI DAVID RAMUTSHELI
DA7.3%
Lead: 2 801 votes
Ward 34
ANC88.9%Leading candidate: TLABEA THOMAS SEBUDUBUDU
DA5.3%
Lead: 4 458 votes
Ward 35
ANC91.7%Leading candidate: JERRY DZHOMBE
DA3.1%
Lead: 5 383 votes
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Several local municipalities

Coordinates planning and shared services across its area, such as bulk water infrastructure. Functions vary by area.

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Combines local and district responsibilities. There is no separate district council above it.

A district municipality is a level of local government. A voting district is a small voting area; it has no council of its own.

CoGTA guide to local government
Sources & result details

IEC: 25 Oct 2021, 14:56 SAST · checked 05 Nov 2026, 16:00 SAST

Historical comparisons use published area results. Boundaries may change between elections. Vote shares use the ballot labelled on each chart; ballots are not individual voters.

Vote percentages beside council seats combine ward and municipal PR ballots. Seat counts include both ward and PR councillors.

Ward vs PR ballots

Ward: choose a person. PR: choose a party.

Ward ballot

The candidate with the most votes in the whole ward wins one seat. They do not need more than 50%.

Municipal PR ballot

PR means proportional representation. Party-list seats balance the council’s overall party representation.

Two ballots work together

Party ward votes and municipal PR votes both count towards the party’s overall seat allocation.

Outside metros, voters also have a separate district PR ballot. An independent can stand in a ward but not on a party PR list.

IEC guide to council seats
IEC source figures

The council results cover all of Makhado. Ward results include areas outside Phadzima.

This page uses the Stats SA statistical main-place boundary labelled 2016. It overlaps 1 of the 2026 wards; the everyday town boundary may differ.

Town-to-ward mappings are available for 2026 only. The historical wards above belong to the whole municipality in 2000.

Positive-area intersections of the 2016 Stats SA main-place polygon and the MDB 2026 ward polygons. Full-ward figures include votes outside the place; votes are never allocated by overlap area. Small boundary alignment differences were excluded using a 10-metre precision tolerance, a combined foreign area below 0.01% of the place, and agreement with the source municipality.

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