2018 Cape Town mayoral election

2018 Cape Town mayoral election
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Nominee Dan Plato Xolani Sotashe Grant Haskin
Party Democratic Alliance ANC ACDP
Electoral vote 146 53 3
Percentage 72.3% 26.2% 1.5%

Mayor before election

Ian Neilson (Acting)
Democratic Alliance

Elected Mayor

Dan Plato
Democratic Alliance

An indirect mayoral election was held at a special sitting of the Cape Town City Council on 6 November 2018 to determine the successor of former mayor Patricia de Lille after she resigned on 31 October. Former mayor and Provincial Minister of Community Safety, Dan Plato, of the Democratic Alliance won the election as the party holds a two-thirds majority in the city council.

Democratic Alliance selection

Nominated

Declared

Declined

African National Congress selection

Nominated

Xolani Sotashe, Leader of the African National Congress in the Cape Town City Council; Mayoral candidate in 2016; Member of the Cape Town City Council

African Christian Democratic Party selection

Nominated

Grant Haskin, Leader of the African Christian Democratic Caucus; former Deputy Mayor of Cape Town; former Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament

Results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Dan PlatoDemocratic Alliance14672.28
Xolani SotasheAfrican National Congress5326.24
Grant HaskinAfrican Christian Democratic Party31.49
Total202100.00
Valid votes20297.12
Invalid/blank votes62.88
Total votes208100.00

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