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2021 · Phokwane council results

Ganspan, Northern Cape

Ward results

ANC retains its majority

Results

2021

Council seats

ANC10 seats
EFF4 seats
DA2 seats
F4SD1 seat
PSDF1 seat
Other1 seat
FF+1 seat

Combined ballot votes

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
47.2%14 995 votes
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS
23.4%7 425 votes
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE
11.6%3 691 votes
Other: show remaining parties: hide remaining parties17.9%5 676 votes
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS | FREEDOM FRONT PLUS
5.8%1 832 votes
PHOKWANE SERVICE DELIVERY FORUM
3.4%1 069 votes
FORUM 4 SERVICE DELIVERY
2.3%742 votes
PATRIOTIC FRONT OF AZANIA
2.2%702 votes
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE
1.2%383 votes
INDEPENDENTS
1.2%372 votes
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION
0.9%292 votes
AFRICAN PEOPLE FIRST
0.3%111 votes
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY
0.3%104 votes
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY
0.2%69 votes

How the vote changed

Other

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2021Vote %vs 2016
ANC47.2%
EFF23.4%
DA11.6%
COPE0.0%
FF+5.8%
PSDF3.4%
F4SD2.3%
PATRIOTIC FRONT OF AZANIA2.2%
Other4.2%
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 election-year selector to explore its results and 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

Council government

Who governed after 2021

ANC01 Oct 2023
ANC + EFFFeb 2026
Administrations & sources

MISTRA records the administrations that governed after the 2021 election, through 28 February 2026. The latest recorded administration is shown below, followed by its predecessors. Party roles and officeholders are recorded at formation; later changes may appear in the notes.

ANCEFF

Members at formation · majority coalition · Around 01 Oct 2023 · recorded active at source cutoff

Inaugural mayor: T. B. Afrika (ANC)

Source notes: Mayor T. B. Afrika was replaced by W. Harmse, also of the ANC. Neither the exact date on which this occurred nor the reason why it happened could be established.

  • Release note: conflicting start dates.
2 recorded administrations · 2021–February 2026
  1. ANC + EFF

    Around 01 Oct 2023 → Active at cutoff · 28 Feb 2026

    Members at formation. Inaugural mayor: T. B. Afrika.

    Mayor T. B. Afrika was replaced by W. Harmse, also of the ANC. Neither the exact date on which this occurred nor the reason why it happened could be established.

    Release note: conflicting start dates.

  2. ANC

    20 Apr 2022 → 01 Oct 2023 · Recomposition

    Members at formation. Inaugural mayor: T. B. Afrika.

About the government history · MISTRA, 2026 edition v1.0

Original coalition coding: CC BY 4.0. IEC seat figures and municipal identifiers retain their original terms. Dates and party labels have been normalised. Counted clarifications are labelled and sourced; original wording and source issues are retained in the data.

Ward results

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Wards in Phokwane

10 wards

Sources & result details

IEC: 15 Jan 2022, 17:50 SAST · checked 05 Nov 2026, 15:38 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.

Seat calculation & source

These are the ward and PR seats published by the IEC. The totals add up to all 19 council seats. This is the historical election allocation, not a record of government changes during the term. Any grouped “Other” seats remain grouped.

IEC result time: 15 Jan 2022, 17:50 SAST · Source figures ↗

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.

Understanding the results

IEC guide to council seats
IEC source figures

The council results cover all of Phokwane. Ward results include areas outside Ganspan.

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 2021.

Positive-area intersections of the full-precision 2016 Stats SA main-place polygon and the MDB 2026 ward polygons. Display simplification is applied separately. 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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