Records in the live release
9,483
Release 2026-11-07, 7 November 2026. Its fingerprint: 9f9d81b192c411b8b98a922f32f54b7dee2c184966a45ef000cec57c200819c1 (what that is).
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Ward and municipal boundaries with history
Municipal, district and ward boundaries for each demarcation cycle, with crosswalks to suburbs, police precincts and postal codes.
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What it holds
How far it reaches
Every ward, local and metropolitan municipality and district in the Municipal Demarcation Board's boundaries for the 2021 local government elections (4,468 wards, 213 municipalities, 52 districts and metros) and for the 2026 elections (4,485 wards, 213 municipalities, 52 districts and metros), with codes, names, areas, label points and the dates each cycle is in force. Shapes simplified with shared borders kept shared (wards to 5 m, municipalities and districts to 20 m). Next: the 2016 and 2011 cycles, then crosswalks to suburbs, police precincts and postal codes.
How often it changes
As published
The MDB redetermines municipal boundaries and delimits wards before each local government election (every five years); it can correct a layer between elections. Check its Spatial Knowledge Hub each quarter and after any redetermination notice.
Where the figures come from
Municipal Demarcation Board. Municipal Demarcation Board boundaries, shapes simplified by us, used under the MDB's licence (acknowledge the MDB; not to be sold or passed on as the MDB's product).
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Measured accuracy
Not checked against a source page: it holds the Municipal Demarcation Board's shapes and codes, not figures printed on a page. 50 records sampled on 12 November 2026. The sample and any failures.
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Get it
On this site
Find your ward, free, no account.
Through the API
/v1/datasets/ward-boundaries/records, as JSON, CSV or Excel, with filters and any past date. Fields and filters. It takes a key.
All of it at once (Parquet)
The full history, built with release 2026-11-07. A download takes a key; the fingerprints are public. How to download a snapshot.
ward-boundaries-2026-11-07-records.parquet: 9,483 record rows (every release), 675 kB. sha256ccf279783c69b18c…
For data portals
Described in DCAT in /catalog.json and on this page.
Stories that used it: 2026 local election results: 138 of 212 councils hung, and what happened in your province · Local government elections 2026: the count as it comes in · Nobody in charge: 81 of 115 finished councils hung, at 75% counted
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