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   Leader Cyril Ramaphosa John Steenhuisen Julius Malema Party ANC DA EFF Popular vote 45.59% 21.62% 10.32% Swing 8.32% 5.28% 2.13% Councillors 4,545 1,414 980 Councillors ± 618 298 219 Municipalities 176 35 2 Municipalities ± 41 8 2   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Velenkosini Hlabisa Pieter Groenewald Herman Mashaba Party IFP FF Plus ActionSA Popular vote 5.65% 2.34% 2.34% Swing 1.4% 1.57% 2.34 Councillors 544 220 90 Councillors ± 112 153 90 Municipalities 29 0 0 Municipalities ± 16

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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. It is the sixth municipal election held in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994, held every five years. The previous municipal elections were held in 2016. On 21 April 2021, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the elections will 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.