Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality elections

The Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality council was established in 2016, and consists of sixty-eight members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-four councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-four wards, while the remaining thirty-four are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of 44 seats.

Results

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

Event	ANC	DA	EFF	UDM	Other	Total
2016 election	50	9	6	1	2	68
2021 election	44	7	6	1	10	68

August 2016 election

Main article: 2016 South African municipal elections

The following table shows the results of the 2016 election.

Party		Ward			List			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	African National Congress	48,234	74.29	32	47,997	73.33	18	50
	Democratic Alliance	8,399	12.94	2	8,710	13.31	7	9
	Economic Freedom Fighters	5,119	7.88	0	5,142	7.86	6	6
	United Front of the Eastern Cape	1,085	1.67	0	1,111	1.70	1	1
	United Democratic Movement	704	1.08	0	954	1.46	1	1
	Congress of the People	630	0.97	0	840	1.28	1	1
	Independent Ratepayers Association of SA	353	0.54	0	218	0.33	0	0
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	152	0.23	0	336	0.51	0	0
	Freedom Front Plus	140	0.22	0	142	0.22	0	0
	Independent candidates	111	0.17	0				0
Total		64,927	100.00	34	65,450	100.00	34	68
Valid votes		64,927	98.53		65,450	98.49
Invalid/blank votes		966	1.47		1,003	1.51
Total votes		65,893	100.00		66,453	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		123,599	53.31		123,599	53.76

November 2021 election

Main article: 2021 South African municipal elections

The following table shows the results of the 2021 election.

Party		Ward			List			Total seats
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	African National Congress	33,057	60.53	32	34,676	63.81	12	44
	Democratic Alliance	5,939	10.88	1	5,700	10.49	6	7
	Economic Freedom Fighters	3,997	7.32	0	4,565	8.40	6	6
	The Independents	3,033	5.55	0	4,196	7.72	5	5
	Independent candidates	5,521	10.11	1				1
	Independent South African National Civic Organisation	666	1.22	0	2,323	4.27	2	2
	United Democratic Movement	569	1.04	0	738	1.36	1	1
	Patriotic Alliance	582	1.07	0	560	1.03	1	1
	African Transformation Movement	353	0.65	0	549	1.01	1	1
	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania	320	0.59	0	386	0.71	0	0
	Congress of the People	290	0.53	0	251	0.46	0	0
	Freedom Front Plus	160	0.29	0	153	0.28	0	0
	Progressive Front of South Africa	92	0.17	0	140	0.26	0	0
	African Multicultural Economic Congress	30	0.05	0	104	0.19	0	0
Total		54,609	100.00	34	54,341	100.00	34	68
Valid votes		54,609	97.95		54,341	97.38
Invalid/blank votes		1,144	2.05		1,463	2.62
Total votes		55,753	100.00		55,804	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		118,637	46.99		118,637	47.04

By-elections from November 2021

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

Date	Ward	Party of the previous councillor		Party of the newly elected councillor
20 April 2022	33		African National Congress		Independent candidate
30 November 2022	33		Independent candidate		African National Congress
23 August 2023	25		African National Congress		African National Congress
4 Dec 2024	31		African National Congress		African National Congress

A by-election was held in ward 33 on 20 April 2022 after the court ordered a rerun due to irregularities. Independent candidate Ntombekhaya Kortman, who had lost by 4 votes in 2021, won the rerun. Kortman died later that year after an illness, and in a by-election held on 30 November, the ANC regained the seat.