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	ASA	AZAPO	COPE	DA	EFF	FF+	IFP	NNP	PAC	UDM	Other
2000 election	1	128	—	1	—	73	—	1	8	—	3	1	1
2002 floor-crossing	1	133	—	0	—	59	—	0	7	8	3	1	5
2004 floor-crossing	1	139	—	0	—	60	—	0	8	0	3	1	5
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	44	0	1	71	29	4	7	—	1	1	18

December 2000 election

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	354,225	59.00	70	352,707	58.79	58	128
	Democratic Alliance	202,421	33.72	37	199,905	33.32	36	73
	Inkatha Freedom Party	20,924	3.49	2	21,730	3.62	6	8
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	7,088	1.18	0	7,713	1.29	3	3
	United Democratic Movement	2,443	0.41	0	4,836	0.81	1	1
	Independent candidates	6,397	1.07	0				0
	African Christian Democratic Party	726	0.12	0	4,196	0.70	1	1
	Christian Democratic Party	1,752	0.29	0	2,506	0.42	1	1
	Azanian People's Organisation	1,455	0.24	0	1,943	0.32	1	1
	Freedom Front Plus	1,478	0.25	0	1,114	0.19	1	1
	Gemini Movement	716	0.12	0	1,086	0.18	0	0
	Green Party of South Africa	209	0.03	0	1,335	0.22	0	0
	Workers Party	208	0.03	0	866	0.14	0	0
	Thembelihle Masibambane Civic Organisation	330	0.05	0				0
Total		600,372	100.00	109	599,937	100.00	108	217

Valid votes		600,372	98.29		599,937	98.25
Invalid/blank votes		10,458	1.71		10,686	1.75
Total votes		610,830	100.00		610,623	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,552,791	39.34		1,552,791	39.32

By-elections from December 2000 to October 2002

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period between the election in December 2000 and the floor crossing period in October 2002.^[2]

Date	Ward
15 September 2001	1	African National Congress	African National Congress
15 September 2001	93	Democratic Alliance	Democratic Alliance
17 April 2002	107	African National Congress	African National Congress
15 May 2002	47	African National Congress	Independent
25 September 2002	97	Democratic Alliance	Democratic Alliance

October 2002 floor crossing

In terms of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution and the judgment of the Constitutional Court in United Democratic Movement v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others, in the period from 8–22 October 2002 councillors had the opportunity to cross the floor to a different political party without losing their seats.

In the Johannesburg council, eight councillors crossed from the Democratic Alliance (DA) to the New National Party (NNP), which had formerly been part of the DA, and six councillors crossed from the DA to the African National Congress (ANC). One councillor each from the Inkatha Freedom Party and the Freedom Front Plus crossed to the Christian Democratic Party (CDP). The single councillor of the Azanian People's Organisation crossed to the Black Consciousness Forum.^[3]

	Seats before	Net change	Seats after
African National Congress	127	6	133
Democratic Alliance	73	14	59
New National Party	–	8	8
Inkatha Freedom Party	8	1	7
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	3	0	3
Christian Democratic Party	1	2	3
United Democratic Movement	1	0	1
African Christian Democratic Party	1	0	1
Independent	1	0	1
Black Consciousness Forum	—	1	1
Azanian People's Organisation	1	1	0
Freedom Front Plus	1	1	0

By-elections from October 2002 to August 2004

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period between the floor crossing periods in October 2002 and September 2004.^[2]

Date	Ward
30 October 2002	75	African National Congress	Inkatha Freedom Party
22 January 2003	60	African National Congress	African National Congress
7 May 2003	57	Democratic Alliance	Democratic Alliance
15 October 2003	41	African National Congress	African National Congress
23 June 2004	70	Democratic Alliance	Democratic Alliance
23 June 2004	89	Democratic Alliance	Democratic Alliance

September 2004 floor crossing

Another floor-crossing period occurred on 1–15 September 2004. Seven councillors crossed from the NNP to the ANC, one councillor crossed from the NNP to the Independent Democrats, and one crossed from the CDP to the DA.^[4]

	Seats before	Net change	Seats after
African National Congress	132	7	139
Democratic Alliance	59	1	60
Inkatha Freedom Party	8	0	8
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	3	0	3
Christian Democratic Party	3	1	2
United Democratic Movement	1	0	1
African Christian Democratic Party	1	0	1
Independent	1	0	1
Black Consciousness Forum	1	0	1
Independent Democrats	—	1	1
New National Party	8	8	0

By-elections from September 2004 to February 2006

The following by-elections were held to fill vacant ward seats in the period between the floor crossing periods in September 2004 and the election in March 2006.^[2]

Date	Ward	Party of the previous councillor		Party of the newly elected councillor
20 April 2005	38		African National Congress		African National Congress
27 July 2005	74		Democratic Alliance		Democratic Alliance

March 2006 election

The following table shows the results of the 2006 election.^[5]


Party		Ward			List			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	African National Congress	429,282	61.85	75	433,051	62.74	61	136
	Democratic Alliance	187,340	26.99	31	187,116	27.11	28	59
	Inkatha Freedom Party	23,137	3.33	2	23,460	3.40	5	7
	Independent Democrats	13,000	1.87	0	13,369	1.94	4	4
	Independent candidates	13,883	2.00	1				1
	African Christian Democratic Party	6,831	0.98	0	6,688	0.97	2	2
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	5,252	0.76	0	5,638	0.82	2	2
	Freedom Front Plus	3,943	0.57	0	3,951	0.57	1	1
	United Democratic Movement	1,931	0.28	0	4,024	0.58	1	1
	Azanian People's Organisation	2,827	0.41	0	2,993	0.43	1	1
	Operation Khanyisa Movement	1,173	0.17	0	3,132	0.45	1	1
	Christian Democratic Party	1,503	0.22	0	1,485	0.22	1	1
	Christian Front	1,621	0.23	0	1,296	0.19	1	1
	National Democratic Convention	773	0.11	0	1,608	0.23	0	0
	United Independent Front	338	0.05	0	1,046	0.15	0	0
	Gemini Movement	538	0.08	0	625	0.09	0	0
	Black Consciousness Forum	182	0.03	0	451	0.07	0	0
	Sunrise Park, Protea City and Greenside Residents' Association	469	0.07	0				0
	Economic Freedom Movement	40	0.01	0	331	0.05	0	0
Total		694,063	100.00	109	690,264	100.00	108	217

Valid votes		694,063	98.56		690,264	98.29
Invalid/blank votes		10,138	1.44		12,001	1.71
Total votes		704,201	100.00		702,265	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,739,292	40.49		1,739,292	40.38

May 2011 election

The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.^[6]


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.^[7] 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.^[8] Makhubo died from COVID-19 related complications on 9 July 2021 and Eunice Mgcina was appointed acting mayor.^[9]

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.^[10]^[11]



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.^[12] 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.^[13]^[14]


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

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[mbe-2] "Municipal By-elections results". Electoral Commission of South Africa. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

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[4] "2004 Floor Crossing - Summary report" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Retrieved 17 April 2017.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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