2021 · Newcastle council results
Suspense, KwaZulu-Natal
ANC loses its majority
Results
Council seats
Other7 seats
Combined ballot votes
Other: show remaining parties: hide remaining parties31.2%50 469 votes
How the vote changed
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Seats unavailable for this election.
31 for a majority · 61 seats
31 for a majority · 61 seats
34 for a majority · 67 seats
34 for a majority · 67 seats
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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.
Council government
Who governed after 2021
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.
Members at formation · minority administration · 22 Nov 2021 · recorded active at source cutoff
Outside support at formation: DA + EFF + FF+. Supporters are separate from governing members.
Inaugural mayor: D. X. Dube (IFP)
Source notes: The EFF withdrew its support at the end of January 2023 after an announcement by J. Malema, and this administration continued without it. By-elections during 2024 moved seats from the ANC to the IFP.
1 recorded administration · 2021–February 2026
- ActionSA + IFP + TSSA
22 Nov 2021 → Active at cutoff · 28 Feb 2026
Members at formation. Outside support: DA + EFF + FF+. Inaugural mayor: D. X. Dube.
The EFF withdrew its support at the end of January 2023 after an announcement by J. Malema, and this administration continued without it. By-elections during 2024 moved seats from the ANC to the IFP.
Ward results
Browse wardsWards in Newcastle
34 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 67 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.
The candidate with the most votes in the whole ward wins one seat. They do not need more than 50%.
PR means proportional representation. Party-list seats balance the council’s overall party representation.
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 seatsThe council results cover all of Newcastle. Ward results include areas outside Suspense.
This page uses the Stats SA statistical main-place boundary labelled 2016. It overlaps 3 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.