The Ward Demarcations are determined by The Municipal Demarcation Board – an independent authority responsible for the determination of municipal boundaries. The Board’s status as an independent authority is also protected by section 3 of The Local Government: Municipal Demarcation Act, 1998, and various judgments by the Constitutional Court.
Every five years, wards in metropolitan and local municipalities are delimited for electoral purposes.
Four principles guide ward configuration:
- use voting districts as building blocks for the creation of wards;
- these voting districts must create a contiguous ward;
- MDB tried as far as possible not to split voting districts; and
- wards boundaries created should be identifiable (geographical identifiable features such as roads, rivers, mountains, valleys, etc).
In 2021, the number of registered voters is estimated to be 26 749 806, and total number of wards at 4 468 – 76 more wards than during the 2016 Local Government Elections, when there were 4 392 municipal wards in the country.
Ward 7 comprises of a total of 11364 registered voters.
Voting Stations:
- Morewag Primary School – 3103 Voters
- Newton Park Library – 3405 Voters
- Newton Technical High School – 3465 Voters
- Alexander Road High School – 1391 Voters
