Rand West City Local Municipality elections

Last updated December 28, 2022

The Rand West City Local Municipality council consists of 69 members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. 35 councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in 35 wards, while the remaining 34 are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.

Results

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

Event	ANC	APO	DA	EFF	FF+	IFP	RPP	Other	Total
2016 election	37	1	19	8	1	1	2	0	69
2021 election	32	1	16	11	3	1	1	4	69

August 2016 election

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.^[2]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	39,954	52.64	27	39,865	52.66	10	37
	Democratic Alliance	20,500	27.01	8	20,313	26.83	11	19
	Economic Freedom Fighters	9,110	12.00	0	9,031	11.93	8	8
	Randfontein Peoples Party	2,429	3.20	0	2,537	3.35	2	2
	Freedom Front Plus	1,254	1.65	0	1,122	1.48	1	1
	Azanian People's Organisation	789	1.04	0	757	1.00	1	1
	Inkatha Freedom Party	701	0.92	0	724	0.96	1	1
	Congress of the People	359	0.47	0	348	0.46	0	0
	United Democratic Movement	224	0.30	0	326	0.43	0	0
	Patriotic Alliance	240	0.32	0	252	0.33	0	0
	African Christian Democratic Party	114	0.15	0	264	0.35	0	0
	International Revelation Congress	101	0.13	0	163	0.22	0	0
	Independent candidates	105	0.14	0				0
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	27	0.04	0				0
Total		75,907	100.00	35	75,702	100.00	34	69

Valid votes		75,907	98.59		75,702	98.47
Invalid/blank votes		1,086	1.41		1,180	1.53
Total votes		76,993	100.00		76,882	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		136,276	56.50		136,276	56.42

November 2021 election

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.^[3]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	24,410	44.44	27	25,253	46.22	5	32
	Democratic Alliance	12,629	22.99	8	12,569	23.01	8	16
	Economic Freedom Fighters	7,953	14.48	0	8,537	15.63	11	11
	Freedom Front Plus	2,092	3.81	0	2,135	3.91	3	3
	Patriotic Alliance	1,513	2.75	0	1,571	2.88	2	2
	Independent candidates	2,618	4.77	0				0
	Azanian People's Organisation	715	1.30	0	662	1.21	1	1
	Randfontein Peoples Party	574	1.04	0	756	1.38	1	1
	African Independent Congress	488	0.89	0	654	1.20	1	1
	Inkatha Freedom Party	423	0.77	0	562	1.03	1	1
	African Christian Democratic Party	410	0.75	0	480	0.88	1	1
	Congress of the People	299	0.54	0	287	0.53	0	0
	United Democratic Movement	271	0.49	0	303	0.55	0	0
	African Transformation Movement	216	0.39	0	289	0.53	0	0
	Forum for Service Delivery	80	0.15	0	177	0.32	0	0
	Party of Action	106	0.19	0	131	0.24	0	0
	United Christian Democratic Party	55	0.10	0	134	0.25	0	0
	National Freedom Party	47	0.09	0	75	0.14	0	0
	South African Royal Kingdoms Organization	31	0.06	0	60	0.11	0	0
Total		54,930	100.00	35	54,635	100.00	34	69

Valid votes		54,930	98.08		54,635	97.22
Invalid/blank votes		1,074	1.92		1,564	2.78
Total votes		56,004	100.00		56,199	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		131,921	42.45		131,921	42.60

By-elections from November 2021

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period from the election in November 2021.

Date	Ward	Party of the previous councillor		Party of the newly elected councillor
31 May 2022^[4]	4		African National Congress		Economic Freedom Fighters

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References

↑ "The Local Government Handbook" . Retrieved 6 August 2016.
↑ "Election Result Table for LGE2016 — Rand West City". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
↑ "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Rand West City". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
↑ "And I can confirm that the EFF has won a third straight ward off of the ANC!". Twitter. Retrieved 1 June 2022.

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[lgovhbook-1] "The Local Government Handbook" . Retrieved 6 August 2016.

[2] "Election Result Table for LGE2016 — Rand West City". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

[3] "Election Result Table for LGE2021 — Rand West City". wikitable.frith.dev. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

[4] "And I can confirm that the EFF has won a third straight ward off of the ANC!". Twitter. Retrieved 1 June 2022.

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