Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality elections

The Makhuduthamaga Local Municipality is a Local Municipality in Limpopo, South Africa. The council consists of sixty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-one councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-one wards, while the remaining thirty-one 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 40 seats on the council.

Results

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

Event	ANC	AZAPO	DA	EFF	PAC	SAMEBA	Other	Total
2000 election	47	1	2	—	2	—	4	56
2006 election	54	1	2	—	1	—	3	61
2011 election	52	2	1	—	1	1	4	61
2016 election	43	1	2	14	0	1	1	61
2021 election	40	0	1	15	0	2	4	62

The following table shows the results of the 2000 election.^[1]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	34,356	86.16	28	33,428	83.83	19	47
	United Democratic Movement	2,678	6.72	0	2,463	6.18	4	4
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	1,132	2.84	0	1,693	4.25	2	2
	Democratic Alliance	1,114	2.79	0	1,422	3.57	2	2
	Azanian People's Organisation	596	1.49	0	870	2.18	1	1
Total		39,876	100.00	28	39,876	100.00	28	56

Valid votes		39,876	97.60		39,876	97.55
Invalid/blank votes		980	2.40		1,001	2.45
Total votes		40,856	100.00		40,877	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		98,527	41.47		98,527	41.49

The following table shows the results of the 2006 election.^[2]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	40,981	85.99	29	42,131	90.84	25	54
	Independent candidates	2,777	5.83	2				2
	Democratic Alliance	1,132	2.38	0	1,041	2.24	2	2
	United Independent Front	1,091	2.29	0	1,010	2.18	1	1
	Azanian People's Organisation	926	1.94	0	841	1.81	1	1
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	738	1.55	0	754	1.63	1	1
	United Democratic Movement	14	0.03	0	604	1.30	0	0
Total		47,659	100.00	31	46,381	100.00	30	61

Valid votes		47,659	98.12		46,381	95.80
Invalid/blank votes		912	1.88		2,034	4.20
Total votes		48,571	100.00		48,415	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		111,628	43.51		111,628	43.37

The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.^[3]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	43,347	78.14	31	46,896	85.58	21	52
	Congress of the People	2,756	4.97	0	3,178	5.80	3	3
	Independent candidates	4,973	8.96	0				0
	Azanian People's Organisation	1,349	2.43	0	1,369	2.50	2	2
	Democratic Alliance	1,050	1.89	0	1,239	2.26	1	1
	African People's Convention	638	1.15	0	590	1.08	1	1
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	536	0.97	0	561	1.02	1	1
	South African Maintenance and Estate Beneficiaries Association	428	0.77	0	495	0.90	1	1
	African Christian Democratic Party	267	0.48	0	302	0.55	0	0
	United Democratic Movement	129	0.23	0	168	0.31	0	0
Total		55,473	100.00	31	54,798	100.00	30	61

Valid votes		55,473	97.97		54,798	97.04
Invalid/blank votes		1,152	2.03		1,670	2.96
Total votes		56,625	100.00		56,468	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		117,870	48.04		117,870	47.91

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.^[4]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	42,671	67.75	31	42,667	68.15	12	43
	Economic Freedom Fighters	13,652	21.68	0	13,641	21.79	14	14
	Democratic Alliance	2,157	3.42	0	2,102	3.36	2	2
	African People's Socialist Party	1,130	1.79	0	1,068	1.71	1	1
	Azanian People's Organisation	718	1.14	0	780	1.25	1	1
	South African Maintenance and Estate Beneficiaries Association	706	1.12	0	711	1.14	1	1
	Independent candidates	931	1.48	0				0
	African People's Convention	19	0.03	0	515	0.82	0	0
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	246	0.39	0	168	0.27	0	0
	United Democratic Movement	152	0.24	0	165	0.26	0	0
	United Christian Democratic Party	175	0.28	0	134	0.21	0	0
	Community Congress	162	0.26	0	127	0.20	0	0
	Sekhukhune Congress				212	0.34	0	0
	Socialist Radical Change	16	0.03	0	171	0.27	0	0
	Congress of the People	133	0.21	0				0
	Liberators Party	36	0.06	0	65	0.10	0	0
	Pan African Socialist Movement of Azania	45	0.07	0	36	0.06	0	0
	Agang South Africa	30	0.05	0	42	0.07	0	0
Total		62,979	100.00	31	62,604	100.00	31	62

Valid votes		62,979	98.33		62,604	98.00
Invalid/blank votes		1,070	1.67		1,276	2.00
Total votes		64,049	100.00		63,880	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		127,687	50.16		127,687	50.03

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.^[5]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	32,923	60.23	30	35,027	65.34	10	40
	Economic Freedom Fighters	12,201	22.32	0	13,126	24.49	15	15
	Independent candidates	4,531	8.29	1				1
	South African Maintenance and Estate Beneficiaries Association	1,380	2.52	0	1,171	2.18	2	2
	Democratic Alliance	858	1.57	0	929	1.73	1	1
	National Communist Congress	773	1.41	0	751	1.40	1	1
	Socialist Agenda of Dispossessed Africans	270	0.49	0	291	0.54	1	1
	Democratic Artists Party	254	0.46	0	284	0.53	1	1
	Azanian People's Organisation	193	0.35	0	243	0.45	0	0
	African People's Socialist Party	199	0.36	0	199	0.37	0	0
	African Christian Democratic Party	178	0.33	0	206	0.38	0	0
	African People's Convention	200	0.37	0	128	0.24	0	0
	Congress of the People	143	0.26	0	153	0.29	0	0
	United Christian Democratic Party	50	0.09	0	205	0.38	0	0
	Forum for Service Delivery	66	0.12	0	181	0.34	0	0
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	98	0.18	0	146	0.27	0	0
	Inkatha Freedom Party	42	0.08	0	199	0.37	0	0
	Bolsheviks Party of South Africa	67	0.12	0	106	0.20	0	0
	Patriotic Alliance	71	0.13	0	101	0.19	0	0
	African Transformation Movement	47	0.09	0	90	0.17	0	0
	Defenders of the People	40	0.07	0	70	0.13	0	0
	United Democratic Movement	74	0.14	0				0
Total		54,658	100.00	31	53,606	100.00	31	62

Valid votes		54,658	98.27		53,606	97.10
Invalid/blank votes		965	1.73		1,602	2.90
Total votes		55,623	100.00		55,208	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		127,638	43.58		127,638	43.25