In South Africa,wards are geopolitical subdivisions ofmunicipalities used for electoral purposes. Eachmetropolitan andlocal municipality is delimited by theMunicipal Demarcation Board into half as many wards as there are seats on the municipal council (rounding up if there are an odd number of seats). Each ward then elects one councillor directly, and the remaining councillors are elected fromparty lists so that the overall party representation is proportional to the proportion of votes received by each party.
After the2021 municipal elections, there are 4,468 wards in South Africa.[1]
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