City of Johannesburg elections

The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality council consists of 270 City Councillors elected by mixed-member proportional representation. The councillors are divided into two kinds: (a) 135 Ward councillors who have been elected by first-past-the-post voting in 135 wards; and (b) 135 councillors elected from party lists (so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received).

Ward Councillors have more local responsibilities, including setting up Ward Committees in their wards to raise local issues, commenting on town planning and other local matters in their ward, and liaising with local ratepayers' and residents' associations. PR Councillors are usually allocated to more political tasks within their party structures and within the City.

Results

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

Event	ACDP	ANC	AZAPO	COPE	DA	EFF	FF+	IFP	PAC	UDM	Other
2000 election	1	128	1	-	73	-	1	8	3	1	1
2006 election	2	136	1	-	59	-	1	7	2	1	7
2011 election	1	153	1	3	90	-	1	4	1	1	5
2016 election	1	121	0	1	104	30	1	5	0	1	6
2021 election	3	91	0	1	71	29	4	7	1	1	62

December 2000 election

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


Party		Votes	%	Seats
Party		Votes	%	Ward	List	Total
	African National Congress	707,110	59.18	70	58	128
	Democratic Alliance	403,663	33.78	37	36	73
	Inkatha Freedom Party	42,466	3.55	2	6	8
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	14,802	1.24	0	3	3
	United Democratic Movement	7,279	0.61	0	1	1
	African Christian Democratic Party	4,922	0.41	0	1	1
	Christian Democratic Party	4,258	0.36	0	1	1
	Azanian People's Organisation	3,398	0.28	0	1	1
	Freedom Front Plus	2,594	0.22	0	1	1
	Gemini	1,802	0.15	0	0	0
	Green Party	1,544	0.13	0	0	0
	Workers Party	1,074	0.09	0	0	0
Total		1,194,912	100.00	109	108	217

March 2006 election

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


Party		Votes	%	Seats
Party		Votes	%	Ward	List	Total
	African National Congress	862,333	62.29	75	61	136
	Democratic Alliance	374,456	27.05	31	28	59
	Inkatha Freedom Party	46,597	3.37	2	5	7
	Independent Democrats	26,369	1.90	0	4	4
	African Christian Democratic Party	13,519	0.98	0	2	2
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	10,890	0.79	0	2	2
	Freedom Front Plus	7,894	0.57	0	1	1
	United Democratic Movement	5,955	0.43	0	1	1
	Azanian People's Organisation	5,820	0.42	0	1	1
	Operation Khanyisa Movement	4,305	0.31	0	1	1
	Christian Democratic Party	2,988	0.22	0	1	1
	Christian Front	2,917	0.21	0	1	1
	National Democratic Convention	2,381	0.17	0	0	0
	United Independent Front	1,384	0.10	0	0	0
	Gemini	1,163	0.08	0	0	0
	Black Consciousness Forum	633	0.05	0	0	0
	Sunrise Park, Protea City and Greenside Resident's Association	469	0.03	0	0	0
	Economic Freedom Movement	371	0.03	0	0	0
	Independents	13,883	1.00	1	–	1
Total		1,384,327	100.00	109	108	217

May 2011 election

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


Party		Votes	%	Seats
Party		Votes	%	Ward	List	Total
	African National Congress	1,272,354	58.85	84	69	153
	Democratic Alliance	752,304	34.80	45	45	90
	Inkatha Freedom Party	35,490	1.64	1	3	4
	Congress of the People	25,035	1.16	0	3	3
	National Freedom Party	17,006	0.79	0	2	2
	African People's Convention	9,970	0.46	0	1	1
	African Christian Democratic Party	9,185	0.42	0	1	1
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	8,493	0.39	0	1	1
	Freedom Front Plus	5,433	0.25	0	1	1
	United Democratic Movement	5,022	0.23	0	1	1
	Al Jama-ah	4,989	0.23	0	1	1
	Azanian People's Organisation	4,802	0.22	0	1	1
	Operation Khanyisa Movement	4,423	0.20	0	1	1
	Christian Democratic Party	2,135	0.10	0	0	0
	African Christian Alliance	2,011	0.09	0	0	0
	Black Consciousness Party	1,429	0.07	0	0	0
	South African Progressive Civic Organisation	501	0.02	0	0	0
	Socialist Party of Azania	349	0.02	0	0	0
	Christian Front	481	0.02	0	0	0
	Liberal Democratic Party	267	0.01	0	0	0
	United Residents Front	267	0.01	0	0	0
	Independents			0	–	0
Total		2,161,946	100.00	130	130	260

August 2016 election

In the election of 3 August 2016 the African National Congress (ANC) won the largest share of the seats on the council with 121 but did not achieve a majority. On 22 August 2016, minority parties voted with the DA to elect its mayoral candidate, Herman Mashaba, as the first Democratic Alliance mayor of Johannesburg.^[4] Mashaba appointed a mayoral committee consisting of the DA and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Mashaba resigned on 27 November 2019. The ANC regional chair Geoff Makhubo was elected mayor on 4 December 2019, marking the return of the ANC to the city's executive since its ousting in 2016.^[5] Makhubo died from COVID-19 related complications on 9 July 2021 and Eunice Mgcina was appointed acting mayor.^[6]

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.^[7]^[8]



Party		List			Ward			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	563,912	44.92	37	554,027	44.09	84	121
	Democratic Alliance	483,018	38.48	53	481,837	38.34	51	104
	Economic Freedom Fighters	137,202	10.93	30	141,303	11.24	0	30
	Inkatha Freedom Party	21,464	1.71	5	21,856	1.74	0	5
	African Independent Congress	20,389	1.62	4	17,575	1.40	0	4
	African Christian Democratic Party	3,940	0.31	1	3,534	0.28	0	1
	Freedom Front Plus	3,916	0.31	1	4,212	0.34	0	1
	Al Jama-ah	3,908	0.31	1	2,794	0.22	0	1
	United Democratic Movement	3,080	0.25	1	3,478	0.28	0	1
	Congress of the People	2,679	0.21	1	1,851	0.15	0	1
	Patriotic Alliance	2,148	0.17	1	1,687	0.13	0	1
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	2,080	0.17	0	1,119	0.09	0	0
	African People's Convention	2,064	0.16	0	581	0.05	0	0
	Truly Alliance	1,002	0.08	0	1,511	0.12	0	0
	Operation Khanyisa Movement	995	0.08	0	794	0.06	0	0
	Azanian People's Organisation	815	0.06	0	1,279	0.10	0	0
	Patriotic Association of South Africa	625	0.05	0	694	0.06	0	0
	Agang South Africa	380	0.03	0	97	0.01	0	0
	Ubuntu Party	380	0.03	0	66	0.01	0	0
	International Revelation Congress	369	0.03	0	180	0.01	0	0
	Socialist Party of Azania	343	0.03	0	281	0.02	0	0
	African People's Socialist Party	195	0.02	0	267	0.02	0	0
	People's Civic Organisation	173	0.01	0	62	0.00	0	0
	Building a Cohesive Society	158	0.01	0	120	0.01	0	0
	Prem Peoples Agenda	93	0.01	0	27	0.00	0	0
	Bolsheviks Party of South Africa	57	0.00	0				0
	United Front of Civics				50	0.00	0	0
	Independents				15,416	1.23	0	0
Total		1,255,385	100.00	135	1,256,698	100.00	135	270

Valid votes		1,255,385	98.56		1,256,698	98.69
Invalid/blank votes		18,376	1.44		16,745	1.31
Total votes		1,273,761	100.00		1,273,443	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		2,239,966	56.87		2,239,966	56.85

In a by-election held on 24 July 2019, a ward previously held by a Democratic Alliance councillor was won by the African National Congress candidate.^[9] The council was reconfigured as seen below:


Party		Seats
Party		Ward	List	Total
	African National Congress	85	37	122
	Democratic Alliance	50	53	103
	Economic Freedom Fighters	0	30	30
	Inkatha Freedom Party	0	5	5
	African Independent Congress	0	4	4
	Freedom Front Plus	0	1	1
	African Christian Democratic Party	0	1	1
	Al Jama-ah	0	1	1
	United Democratic Movement	0	1	1
	Congress of the People	0	1	1
	Patriotic Alliance	0	1	1
Total		135	135	270

November 2021 election

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.^[10]^[11]


Party		List			Ward			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	306,902	33.22	4	313,387	33.97	87	91
	Democratic Alliance	235,120	25.45	28	247,533	26.83	43	71
	ActionSA	167,359	18.12	44	128,986	13.98	0	44
	Economic Freedom Fighters	93,412	10.11	29	102,751	11.14	0	29
	Patriotic Alliance	27,346	2.96	6	26,830	2.91	2	8
	Inkatha Freedom Party	21,801	2.36	5	21,743	2.36	2	7
	Freedom Front Plus	12,243	1.33	4	12,428	1.35	0	4
	African Christian Democratic Party	9,469	1.03	3	9,999	1.08	0	3
	Al Jama-ah	7,647	0.83	2	9,961	1.08	1	3
	African Independent Congress	6,341	0.69	2	4,619	0.50	0	2
	African Heart Congress	3,938	0.43	1	4,341	0.47	0	1
	Good	3,089	0.33	1	3,684	0.40	0	1
	African Transformation Movement	2,974	0.32	1	3,660	0.40	0	1
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	2,467	0.27	1	1,512	0.16	0	1
	United Democratic Movement	2,218	0.24	1	2,291	0.25	0	1
	Congress of the People	1,779	0.19	1	2,297	0.25	0	1
	Party of Action	1,178	0.13	0	899	0.10	0	0
	United Independent Movement	1,162	0.13	1	1,263	0.14	0	1
	Abantu Batho Congress	1,162	0.13	0	456	0.05	0	0
	Defenders of the People	1,134	0.12	0	1,079	0.12	0	0
	Black First Land First	1,103	0.12	0	834	0.09	0	0
	African People's Convention	1,065	0.12	1	1,212	0.13	0	1
	National Freedom Party	1,017	0.11	0	552	0.06	0	0
	International Revelation Congress	824	0.09	0	267	0.03	0	0
	Agang South Africa	763	0.08	0				0
	Azanian People's Organisation	742	0.08	0	925	0.10	0	0
	African Ambassadors of South Africa	703	0.08	0	849	0.09	0	0
	African Security Congress	582	0.06	0	30	0.00	0	0
	Democratic Artists Party	554	0.06	0	17	0.00	0	0
	Us the People	519	0.06	0	144	0.02	0	0
	People's Freedom Party	509	0.06	0	41	0.00	0	0
	Activists Movement of South Africa	495	0.05	0	234	0.03	0	0
	Justice and Employment Party	491	0.05	0	465	0.05	0	0
	African People's Movement	437	0.05	0	141	0.02	0	0
	National People's Front	422	0.05	0	247	0.03	0	0
	Abahlaly Baahi	419	0.05	0	202	0.02	0	0
	The Organic Humanity Movement	393	0.04	0	605	0.07	0	0
	Africa Restoration Alliance	377	0.04	0	710	0.08	0	0
	Change	351	0.04	0	673	0.07	0	0
	Economic Emancipation Forum	347	0.04	0	604	0.07	0	0
	Forum for Service Delivery	307	0.03	0	197	0.02	0	0
	South African Royal Kingdoms Organization	288	0.03	0	224	0.02	0	0
	Bolsheviks Party of South Africa	285	0.03	0	325	0.04	0	0
	Amalgamated Rainbow Movement	252	0.03	0	195	0.02	0	0
	Community Solidarity Association	242	0.03	0	40	0.00	0	0
	African Freedom Revolution	224	0.02	0	7	0.00	0	0
	Agency for New Agenda	221	0.02	0				0
	International Party	188	0.02	0	0	0.00	0	0
	Disrupt Party	152	0.02	0	279	0.03	0	0
	Civic Movement of South Africa	151	0.02	0	59	0.01	0	0
	Shosholoza Progressive Party	150	0.02	0	348	0.04	0	0
	United Cultural Movement	149	0.02	0	56	0.01	0	0
	Royal Loyal Progress	147	0.02	0	281	0.03	0	0
	Black and White Party	114	0.01	0	54	0.01	0	0
	Sakhisizwe Convention				24	0.00	0	0
	African Covenant				1	0.00	0	0
	Independents				11,904	1.29	0	0
Total		923,724	100.00	135	922,465	100.00	135	270

Valid votes		923,724	98.72		922,465	98.78
Invalid/blank votes		11,975	1.28		11,432	1.22
Total votes		935,699	100.00		933,897	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		2,220,710	42.14		2,220,710	42.05

References

^ "Local Government Elections 2000 - Seat Calculation Detail: JHB - City of Johannesburg [Johannesburg]" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
^ "Local Government Elections 2006 - Seat Calculation Detail: JHB - City of Johannesburg [Johannesburg]" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
^ "Local Government Elections 2011 - Seat Calculation Detail: JHB - City of Johannesburg [Johannesburg]" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
^ "Herman Mashaba elected Johannesburg mayor, marking the end of ANC rule in the city". Mail & Guardian. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
^ Adonis, Vusi (4 December 2019). "JUST IN: ANC's Geoff Makhubo is Joburg's new mayor". IOL. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
^ "Eunice Mgcina is acting mayor of Joburg".
^ "Results Summary – All Ballots: Johannesburg" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
^ "Seat Calculation Detail: Johannesburg" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
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[1] "Local Government Elections 2000 - Seat Calculation Detail: JHB - City of Johannesburg [Johannesburg]" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 November 2021.

[2] "Local Government Elections 2006 - Seat Calculation Detail: JHB - City of Johannesburg [Johannesburg]" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 November 2021.

[3] "Local Government Elections 2011 - Seat Calculation Detail: JHB - City of Johannesburg [Johannesburg]" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2 November 2021.

[4] "Herman Mashaba elected Johannesburg mayor, marking the end of ANC rule in the city". Mail & Guardian. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.

[5] Adonis, Vusi (4 December 2019). "JUST IN: ANC's Geoff Makhubo is Joburg's new mayor". IOL. Retrieved 4 December 2019.

[6] "Eunice Mgcina is acting mayor of Joburg".

[7] "Results Summary – All Ballots: Johannesburg" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 17 August 2016.

[8] "Seat Calculation Detail: Johannesburg" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 17 August 2016.

[9] Sussman, Wayne. ANC and DA swop seats, The Daily Maverick, 25 July 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.

[10] "Results Summary – All Ballots: Johannesburg" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 November 2021.

[11] "Seat Calculation Detail: Johannesburg" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 November 2021.

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