The DA won three times as many Emfuleni wards as the ANC

Wards won by party, Emfuleni Local Municipality — 45 wards total

8
of 168 voting districts won
by a party other than DA or ANC
0
wards won by any party
other than DA or ANC
Emfuleni has long been ANC territory, but the DA won township wards in its own right rather than as a protest-vote beneficiary of ANC collapse — a qualitative shift in the opposition's reach that extends across 160 of the municipality's 168 voting districts.