Where majorities changed, support shifted, and the count is still close.
One party holds more than half the council seats.
No party has a majority. Parties may work together in a coalition or support agreement.
The allocation is incomplete. Estimates can change as more results arrive.
Illustration: a 10-seat council needs 6 seats for a majority. Exactly half is not enough. Election results alone do not tell us who governs now.
Government guide to coalitionsDetailed summaries are available for 213 of 257 councils. Rankings cover the available results.
01 · What changed
Reported allocations, compared with 2021.
Each count represents one council with more than half its seats held by a party. Majorities lost to a hung council count as losses.
112 councils have reported allocations in both elections. Pending councils are excluded.
Net change in ward + PR council seats since 2021. The 8 largest changes.
The same 112 councils in both elections. Estimates and missing comparisons are excluded. Council sizes changed: 2 610 → 2 612 total seats.
02 · Shifts in support
Percentage-point changes since 2021, in 111 comparable completed counts.
Each row is one party in one municipality. A party absent from a complete list is counted as 0%. These are local changes, not national party rankings.
03 · Still in play
Within 2 percentage points, with at least half of districts reporting and counting unfinished.
Mpumalanga
278votes apart0.63 percentage-point gap
KwaZulu-Natal
597votes apart0.64 percentage-point gap
Gauteng
563votes apart1.82 percentage-point gap
Council cards compare municipal PR votes; ward cards compare ward votes. A vote lead does not establish a council majority. Missing ward progress is excluded.
04 · The seat arithmetic
How far the largest parties are from more than half of the seats. Reported allocations only.
Hung councils, ranked by the largest party’s seat shortfall.
The lowest largest-party share of council seats. Ties included.
Seat arithmetic does not imply coalition agreements. The closest list requires one largest party; the most divided list includes ties and ranks by seat share so council size does not dominate. Independent seats count towards the council total but are not treated as one party.
05 · Across the country
How council outcomes are taking shape. Each bar represents all councils in a province.
