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2026 · uMzumbe council results

Sosibo, KwaZulu-Natal

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No party has a majority

Results

2026

Council seats

IFP16 seats
ANC11 seats
MK10 seats
ATM1 seat
NFP1 seat

Municipal PR votes

INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY
41.5%18 674 votes
UMKHONTO WESIZWE PARTY
25.6%11 506 votes
Other: show remaining parties: hide remaining parties6.4%2 892 votes

How the vote changed

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2026Vote %vs 2021
ANC26.7%
IFP41.3%
MKP25.2%—
NFP1.3%
DA1.0%
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 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.
  • 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.
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Council government

Who has governed here

Last recordedANCIFPAfter electionPending
ANC06 Aug 2024
ANC + IFPFeb 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.

ANCIFP

Members at formation · majority coalition · 06 Aug 2024 · recorded active at source cutoff

Inaugural mayor: B. Nyuswa (ANC)

The recorded partners in 2026

27 / 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 Chaos
2 recorded administrations · 2021–February 2026
  1. ANC + IFP

    06 Aug 2024 → Active at cutoff · 28 Feb 2026

    Members at formation. Inaugural mayor: B. Nyuswa.

  2. ANC

    19 Jun 2024 → 06 Aug 2024 · Recomposition

    Members at formation. Inaugural mayor: B. Nyuswa.

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 covering Sosibo

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Sources & result details

IEC: 08 Nov 2026, 21:21 SAST · checked 09 Nov 2026, 16:48 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: 08 Nov 2026, 21:21 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 uMzumbe. Ward results include areas outside Sosibo.

This page uses the Stats SA statistical main-place boundary labelled 2016. It overlaps 2 of the 2026 wards; the everyday town boundary may differ.

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.

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