1.9 million votes. And we are only getting started.

On 4 November 2026, South Africa voted in the local government elections, and the result changed what is possible for our country.

We won 1 913 106 votes, more than three times our 2021 total. We now have 338 councillors, up from 91, and we won 56 wards outright, up from just one.

Our support now reaches across the land. For the first time, we won votes and council seats in all nine provinces, seven of them new to us. 690 650 of our votes came from outside Gauteng, more than our entire national vote in 2021.

In Tshwane we are now the second-largest party, with 22% of the vote. In Laingsburg in the Western Cape, we finished first in our very first election there. From Limpopo and the North West to KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, communities are choosing us.

We did all of this while on the ballot in only 104 of South Africa's 257 councils. Where we stood, voters came to us. We are the only party with no ceiling.

💪 Your Contribution Makes a Difference

Supporters like you made this result possible. Now the real work begins: backing 338 councillors to deliver in their communities, and building in the councils where we were not yet on the ballot.

Every contribution, large or small, helps us turn this breakthrough into lasting change. Thank you for standing with us.