Rand West City Local Municipality elections

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.

It was established for the August 2016 local elections by the merging of Randfontein and Westonaria local municipalities.^[1] It is a division of the West Rand District Municipality.

In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) lost their majority of seats on the council.

Results[]

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

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

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
		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

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
		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
		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
		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