Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality elections

The Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality is a Local Municipality in Limpopo, South Africa. The council consists of seventy-seven members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-nine councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-nine wards, while the remaining thirty-eight are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021. The African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of 54 seats on the council.

Results

The following table shows the composition of the council after past elections.

Event	ANC	AZAPO	DA	EFF	PAC	SADA	Other	Total
2016 election	54	1	4	15	1	1	1	77
2021 election	54	1	2	14	1	2	3	77

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.^[1]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	64,761	66.53	39	67,703	69.89	15	54
	Economic Freedom Fighters	17,046	17.51	0	18,433	19.03	15	15
	Democratic Alliance	4,477	4.60	0	4,479	4.62	4	4
	Independent candidates	5,611	5.76	0				0
	Azanian People's Organisation	1,077	1.11	0	1,082	1.12	1	1
	Congress of the People	937	0.96	0	885	0.91	1	1
	Socialist Agenda of Dispossessed Africans	854	0.88	0	905	0.93	1	1
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	881	0.91	0	767	0.79	1	1
	African People's Convention	272	0.28	0	825	0.85	0	0
	South African Maintenance and Estate Beneficiaries Association	485	0.50	0	463	0.48	0	0
	Sekhukhune Congress	271	0.28	0	396	0.41	0	0
	Socialist Radical Change	184	0.19	0	247	0.25	0	0
	United Democratic Movement	145	0.15	0	221	0.23	0	0
	United Christian Democratic Party	128	0.13	0	174	0.18	0	0
	Pan African Socialist Movement of Azania	114	0.12	0	157	0.16	0	0
	African People's Socialist Party	61	0.06	0	62	0.06	0	0
	Socialist Green Coalition	40	0.04	0	72	0.07	0	0
Total		97,344	100.00	39	96,871	100.00	38	77

Valid votes		97,344	98.22		96,871	97.90
Invalid/blank votes		1,760	1.78		2,079	2.10
Total votes		99,104	100.00		98,950	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		198,678	49.88		198,678	49.80

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.^[2]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	54,338	66.62	39	56,665	69.75	15	54
	Economic Freedom Fighters	13,651	16.74	0	14,161	17.43	14	14
	Independent candidates	4,504	5.52	0				0
	Socialist Agenda of Dispossessed Africans	1,595	1.96	0	2,072	2.55	2	2
	Democratic Alliance	1,604	1.97	0	1,717	2.11	2	2
	Azanian People's Organisation	846	1.04	0	806	0.99	1	1
	Power of Africans Unity	687	0.84	0	899	1.11	1	1
	Freedom Front Plus	611	0.75	0	564	0.69	1	1
	Bolsheviks Party of South Africa	607	0.74	0	521	0.64	1	1
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	489	0.60	0	600	0.74	1	1
	South African Maintenance and Estate Beneficiaries Association	431	0.53	0	471	0.58	0	0
	African Christian Democratic Party	398	0.49	0	428	0.53	0	0
	Defenders of the People	389	0.48	0	396	0.49	0	0
	Congress of the People	350	0.43	0	297	0.37	0	0
	Patriotic Alliance	224	0.27	0	278	0.34	0	0
	Christians of South Africa	185	0.23	0	171	0.21	0	0
	African People's Convention	94	0.12	0	158	0.19	0	0
	Kingdom Covenant Democratic Party	59	0.07	0	180	0.22	0	0
	Inkatha Freedom Party	53	0.06	0	183	0.23	0	0
	Forum for Service Delivery	95	0.12	0	134	0.16	0	0
	Magoshi Swaranang Movement	99	0.12	0	129	0.16	0	0
	Democratic Artists Party	26	0.03	0	103	0.13	0	0
	African People's Socialist Party	36	0.04	0	78	0.10	0	0
	United Democratic Movement	50	0.06	0	64	0.08	0	0
	Africa Restoration Alliance	74	0.09	0	35	0.04	0	0
	African Transformation Movement	37	0.05	0	68	0.08	0	0
	Movement for African Convention	36	0.04	0	57	0.07	0	0
Total		81,568	100.00	39	81,235	100.00	38	77

Valid votes		81,568	98.41		81,235	97.77
Invalid/blank votes		1,317	1.59		1,850	2.23
Total votes		82,885	100.00		83,085	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		200,184	41.40		200,184	41.50

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period since November 2021.^[3]

Date	Ward	Party of the previous councillor		Party of the newly elected councillor
3 Sep 2025^[4]	34		African National Congress		African National Congress
5 Nov 2025^[5]	37		African National Congress		African National Congress