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Mitchells Plain
DA has an outright majority
2026 results
Council seats
Provisional
Other60 seats24.1% of votes
Vote breakdown
Municipal PR votes
Other: show remaining parties: hide remaining parties25.5%295 014 votes
How the vote changed
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Seats unavailable for this election.
106 for a majority · 210 seats
111 for a majority · 221 seats
116 for a majority · 231 seats
116 for a majority · 231 seats
118 for a majority · 235 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.
- 2026 figures are provisional and reflect votes counted so far; reporting completion is not an official declaration.
- 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.
The IEC corrected the 2021 Cape Town allocation in May 2022: one PR seat moved from the DA to Cape Independence Party. The corrected totals are DA 135 and Cape Independence Party 2. Archived vote shares shown here predate that recount; revised votes have not been substituted. IEC correction
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Wards covering Mitchells Plain
14 wards
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.
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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, 15:41 SAST · checked 08 Nov 2026, 04:50 SAST
Results remain provisional until declared by the IEC. 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 235 council seats. Results remain provisional; a seat majority does not establish a governing agreement or who will become mayor.
IEC result time: 07 Nov 2026, 15:41 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 Cape Town. Ward results include areas outside Mitchells Plain.
This page uses the Stats SA statistical main-place boundary labelled 2016. It overlaps 14 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.