Elections in South Africa since 1994

the general elections in South Africa proceed every 5 years. The current constitution goes back to 1996. It succeeded the provisional constitution of April 27th, 1994 and that of May 31st, 1910.

The political principal parties of South Africa concerned are:

Previously also:
  • the national Left (1994) and the New national Party (1999 and 2004) - now amalgamated with the ANC

Elections 1994

The official results of the first South-African multiracial elections were published at the beginning of May 1994. The South-African ones had voted to elect their representatives at the Parliament and in the provincial councils. For this purpose, 9 new provinces had been made up in the place of the 4 old ones, reinstating the ten Bantoustan S independent or autonomous:
  • the ANC gained 63% of the national voices is a little less of the 2/3 necessary ones to work out and vote only the future constitution and 7 of the 9 new provinces.
  • NP arrived as a second with 23% of the voices, primarily those of the white, the mongrels and the Indians. Thanks to the mongrels besides, NP gained the province of the Cape-Westerner with 59% of the voices and failed of accuracy in the province of Cape-of-North with 40% of the voices (against Juste 50% with the ANC).
  • the IFP obtained 10% of the voices and a provincial representation almost only with the KwaZulu-Native with 50% of the voices obtained in spite of the electoral fraud observed.
  • the Face of Freedom managed to only reach 2,8% of the traditional votes obtaining a little less than half of the voices of the Conservative party of South Africa (either 450.000 instead of 1 million). This electorate either had preferred to vote “useful” and thus for NP or had taken refuge in the abstention as the CP encouraged it.
  • the DP arrived in 4th position with 1,8% of the voices primarily at the Cape and Johannesburg.
  • the extreme left was rolled.

National elections of April 27th, 1994

Provincial elections of April 27th, 1994

  • the new province of the Northern Transvaal voted to 84% for the ANC (38 seats with the provincial council), the remainder being divided at the white between NP (1 seat) and the FF (1 seat).
  • the new province of Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging in the middle of old the Transvaal (area of Johannesburg) voted to 57% for the ANC, 25% for NP; the FF, the DP then the IFP obtaining good scores then sufficient to obtain seats.
  • the news Province of the North-West (Transvaal of the west, Bophuthatswana and part of the north-eastern Cape) voted for the ANC (83%) then for NP (9%) and the FF.
  • the new province of the Eastern Transvaal voted with more than 80% for the ANC followed by NP (9%). Good scores of the FF (5%).
  • the free State of Orange sent to 77% representatives of the ANC to the provincial council. NP and the FF were maintained in more afrikaner provinces.
  • the new province of the Cape-of-North passed from accuracy under the domination of the ANC (50%) against 40% to NP, 6% with the FF, and 1,8% with the DP.
  • the Cape-Westerner was the only province gained by NP with 59% of the voices.
  • the KwaZulu-Native was the only province gained by Inkhata.

Elections 1999

Elections main roads 1999

Provincial elections 1999

  • the two provinces of the Cape-Westerner and Kwazulu-Native were preserved by the New national Party (ally with the Democratic party) and by Inkhata.

Elections 2004

National elections of April 2004

Provincial elections of April 2004

  • All the provinces were carried by the ANC including that of the Cape thanks to its alliance with the New national Party.

Internal bonds

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