2021 South African municipal elections

2021 South African municipal elections
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All councillors for all 8 metropolitan municipalities

All councillors for all 205 local municipalities

40% of councillors for all 44 district municipalities
  First party Second party Third party
 
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John Steenhuisen 2024.jpg
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Leader Cyril Ramaphosa John Steenhuisen Julius Malema
Party ANC DA EFF
Popular vote 45.59% 21.62% 10.32%
Swing Decrease8.32% Decrease5.28% Increase2.13%
Councillors 4,545 1,414 980
Councillors ± Decrease618 Decrease298 Increase219
Municipalities 176 35 2
Municipalities ± Decrease41 Increase8 Increase2

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
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Leader Velenkosini Hlabisa Pieter Groenewald Herman Mashaba
Party IFP VF+ ActionSA
Popular vote 5.65% 2.34% 2.34%
Swing Increase1.4% Increase1.57% Increase2.34
Councillors 544 220 90
Councillors ± Increase112 Increase153 Increase90
Municipalities 29 0 0
Municipalities ± Increase16 Steady Steady

The 2021 South African Municipal Elections were held on 1 November 2021,[1] to elect councils for all district, metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country's nine provinces. Being the 6th municipal election held in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994. These held - since then -every five years. The previous municipal elections were held in 2016. On 21 April 2021, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the elections to be held on Wednesday, 27 October 2021.[2] It had been recommend by Dikgang Moseneke to delay the municipal elections until 2022.[3] The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) requested the Constitutional Court to support the date postponement.[4] The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supported the date postponement while the Democratic Alliance (DA) was against the postponement of the date.[5] The Constitutional Court dismissed the application to postpone the date until 2022, ruling that they had to take place between 27 October and 1 November.[6] On 9 September 2021, the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma announced that the elections would be held on 1 November.

  1. ^ AfricaNews (8 September 2021). "South Africa sets contentious local polls for November 1". Africanews. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Ramaphosa announces local government elections date". 21 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Moseneke recommends local elections be delayed until February 2022". 20 July 2021.
  4. ^ "IEC to ask the courts to postpone local elections". 23 July 2021.
  5. ^ "DA calls for elections to be held in October, EFF wants them postponed to March 2022". 2 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Election to go ahead between 27 October and 1 November, orders ConCourt". 3 September 2021.