Your municipality · Ditsobotla
Matila
No party has a majority
2026 results
Council seats
IEC-reported
Other12 seats29.8% of votes
Explain SA CoalitionsWhy team up? And why is it tricky?
A coalition is two or more parties agreeing to govern together. Here’s how it works in a council.
An imaginary council · 10 seats · 6 for a majority
Most seats ≠ a majority
SA’s election system gives different parties a share of the seats. Sometimes none wins more than half. That’s a hung council.
A is the biggest. Four still isn’t six.
Make a deal. Vote together.
Parties negotiate who leads and what to do. Councillors elect the mayor and vote on budgets. Partners stay separate parties, but agree to work together.
Party A4+Party C2=Together6Enough seats. Now agree on a plan.
Who leads · What gets funded · How to settle disputesThe deal has to hold
Partners can disagree over policies, jobs or spending. A small party can tip the balance. If support breaks down, budgets and decisions can stall.
6 / 10back the deal
↑ 6 needed. No seats to spare.
What if Party C leaves?
4 / 10still back the deal
↑ Still 6 needed. Now 2 short.
C keeps its seats. A needs new support to pass a budget.
Why six? A council budget needs support from more than half of all councillors. Other votes can follow different rules. Losing a partner doesn’t automatically remove a mayor.
Vote breakdown
Municipal PR votes
Other: show remaining parties: hide remaining parties35.3%14 410 votes
How the vote changed
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Seats unavailable for this election.
20 for a majority · 38 seats
22 for a majority · 42 seats
21 for a majority · 40 seats
20 for a majority · 39 seats
20 for a majority · 39 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 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.
- IEC declared the 2026 results on 8 November 2026. Feed coverage and seat allocations are separate from the national declaration: missing figures remain missing and estimates remain estimates. Corrections and re-votes may follow.
- 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 has governed here
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 · majority coalition · 23 Sept 2025 · recorded active at source cutoff
Inaugural mayor: M. Morutse (ANC)
The recorded partners in 2026
22 / 39 seats
Enough seats for a hypothetical majority · 20 needed
Hypothetical total for the recorded members at formation. Excludes outside supporters. It does not establish a current agreement, government retention, or a takeover.
Test these parties in Coalition Chaos4 recorded administrations · 2021–February 2026
- ANC + EFF
23 Sept 2025 → Active at cutoff · 28 Feb 2026
Members at formation. Inaugural mayor: M. Morutse.
- ANC
17 Jan 2025 → 23 Sept 2025 · Council Reconstitution
Members at formation. Inaugural mayor: M. Moruri.
Counted clarification: In September 2025 the existing council elected a new mayor and speaker under national intervention. The council was not dissolved. This corrects the source’s termination code to agree with its own narrative.
Clarified 07 Nov 2026. MISTRA 2026 v1.0 · Ditsobotla source narrative ↗
- F4SD
08 Jun 2023 → 17 Jan 2025 · MONC
Members at formation. Outside support: EFF + SDM. Inaugural mayor: T. Nkashe.
The motion that formed this administration carried without objection and the mayor was elected unopposed, so no vote was recorded by party. The ANC is coded Unknown. Speaker R. Matlholoa held the office in an acting capacity. J. Modisakeng was in the chair by January 2025, and neither the date of the change nor his party could be established.
- AHC + ANC + F4SD + PA
09 Jan 2023 → 08 Jun 2023 · MONC
Members at formation. Inaugural mayor: E. I. Lethoko.
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Wards covering Matila
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What is a ward?
One ward elects one councillor to the municipal council.
A part of a local or metro municipality. Its councillor represents residents on that council.
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 seatsLocal, district or metro?
Local councils and district councils share responsibilities. Metros combine both.
Handles local services such as refuse collection and local roads, with responsibilities shared with the district.
Coordinates planning and shared services across its area, such as bulk water infrastructure. Functions vary by area.
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.
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Sources & result details
IEC: 07 Nov 2026, 16:56 SAST · checked 08 Nov 2026, 20:39 SAST
IEC declared the 2026 results on 8 November 2026. Feed coverage and seat allocations are separate from the national declaration: missing figures remain missing and estimates remain estimates. Corrections and re-votes may follow. Reporting progress measures voting districts, not turnout.
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.
Government comparisons use the confirmed pre-election administration when available, otherwise the latest dated record. The new government appears when its membership is confirmed. A retained or changed government requires confirmed records on both sides; seats alone cannot establish it.
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 39 council seats. IEC declared the 2026 results on 8 November 2026. Feed coverage and seat allocations are separate from the national declaration: missing figures remain missing and estimates remain estimates. Corrections and re-votes may follow. A seat majority does not establish a governing agreement or who will become mayor.
IEC result time: 07 Nov 2026, 16:56 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 Ditsobotla. Ward results include areas outside Matila.
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.
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.