Elections in South Africa 2019

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(Share of votes in%)
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30th
20th
10
0
57.50
20.77
10.79
3.38
2.38
0.84
0.45
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Gains and losses
compared to 2014
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-1.46
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A total of 400 seats
Session room of the National Assembly

The 2019 elections in South Africa took place on May 8, 2019. The were South African National Assembly ( National assembly ) and the nine provincial assemblies ( provincial legislature ) elected. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) was responsible for running the elections .

The African National Congress (ANC), which has ruled since 1994, was able to retain its absolute majority despite losses, so that it can continue to govern alone. The official opposition party was again the Democratic Alliance (DA), which lost slightly, and the third strongest party was again the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). Eleven other parties entered the National Assembly.

The ANC also won eight of the nine provincial assembly elections, the DA won in the Western Cape Province .

Election to the National Assembly

Starting position

National results 2014 by constituency. Darker coloring means absolute majority, lighter coloring means relative majority. African National Congress Democratic Alliance Congress of the People Inkatha Freedom Party National Freedom Party Other parties
 
 
 
 
 
 
Distribution of seats in the National Assembly 2014:
ANC (249) DA (89) EFF (25) IFP (10) Other (27)





In the last election in May 2014 , the African National Congress (ANC) under the then President Jacob Zuma was able to defend its absolute majority, but lost almost four percentage points. 13 parties made it into the National Assembly. The strongest opposition party and thus the opposition leader remained the Democratic Alliance (DA), which, alongside the newly founded Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), grew the most. The turnout was 73.4% and the elections were peaceful, free and fair. The election date of May 8, 2019 for the elections due after the end of the legislative period was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on February 7, 2019.

Party political developments since 2014

As since 1994, the ANC ruled with an absolute majority in the Tripartite Alliance, which includes the South African Communist Party and the trade union confederation Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), both of which are on the ANC's lists. President Zuma was increasingly criticized by his own party for numerous affairs, including the Gupta family's involvement in state affairs . On February 14, 2018, he was replaced by former Vice President Cyril Ramaphosa . The result of the local elections in 2016 , in which the ANC suffered losses, had also contributed to the change in the presidency . In 2018, at the initiative of the ANC, Parliament set up a committee to examine a possible expropriation of land without compensation after the EFF had previously requested it.

Several parties are competing for the first time. The Good party was founded in December 2018 by Patricia de Lille , the former mayor of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality . The African Transformation Movement (ATM) under Vuyo Zungula, a former close follower of Jacob Zuma, is close to the evangelical churches in the country. a. for the reintroduction of the death penalty . The African Content Movement (ACM) is led by former Chief Operating Officer of the South African Broadcasting Corporation , Hlaudi Motsoeneng. The Black First Land First (BLF) party is a split from the EFF and acts openly against white South Africans.

Eligible parties

As of January 10, 2019, 285 parties were registered with the IEC, 84 of them being newly founded. 48 parties were finally allowed to vote in the National Assembly. They appear in alphabetical order on the ballot paper; To avoid confusion, however, parties with the first letter A and similar names were given places by drawing lots, so that the African Security Congress comes first.

Survey

organization Data Respondents ANC THERE EFF Others Undecided
IRR 18.-25. Apr. 2019 2375 49.5   21.3   14.9   8.3   0.9
Ipsos Feb. 1–4. March 2019 3511 61   18   10   11   0
IRR Feb. 12 - April 26 Feb. 2019 1611 54.7   21.8   12.2   8.8   2.6
Afric Jan. 29–8. Feb. 2019 1501 58.1   9.8   16.7   3.5   11.9
Ipsos Oct. 23–4. Dec 2018 3571 61   14   9   4   12
IRR Nov. 26th – 4th Dec 2018 1017 56   18   11   14   1
Afro barometer Aug. – Sep. 2018 1800 48   11   11   3   27
IRR 22 Aug – 4 Aug Sep 2018 978 52   23   13   10   2
Ipsos April 20–7 June 2018 3738 60   13   7   2   18th
Ipsos May 2017 3471 47   21   5   3   24
Election result 2014 May 7, 2014 62.2 22.2 6.4 5.3

Note:
All figures in percent.

Arrows reflect the trend compared to the 2014 elections.

Registration

Registration took place on 10/11. March 2018 and on 26./27. January 2019, for South Africans living abroad from February 1 to 4, 2019. Around 26.8 million people were registered for the elections, including around 14.7 million women and 12.0 million men.

The minimum voting age was 18 years. The numbers of 18–19 year olds and 20–29 year olds who registered, despite the population growth compared to registration in 2014, decreased; for 18–19 year olds by almost half. It is estimated that there are more than nine million unregistered residents of full age, so that the share of registered voters in the number of all adults fell from over 80% in 2014 to 74.5%.

procedure

The mandates for the National Assembly are awarded according to proportional representation. There is no threshold clause . Around 0.2% of the votes are sufficient for a mandate. As usual, the elections to the National Assembly and the Provincial Assemblies will take place on a Wednesday, and the polling stations should be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Each voter receives a stain of real ink on their thumbnail . Before the election, the thumb is examined with UV light to prevent multiple voting. One ballot paper each for the elections to the National Assembly and to the Provincial Assembly will be issued, on each of which a list could be ticked. In addition to the party name, each line contains the name of the top candidate, the party's logo and a voting field. Of the 400 MPs, 200 are elected via national lists and 200 via provincial lists. There are around 23,000 polling stations.

Election result 2019

Nationwide results by district ( wards ). Darker coloring means absolute majority, lighter coloring means relative majority. African National Congress Democratic Alliance Inkatha Freedom Party Other
 
 
 
 
Strongest parties by voting districts . African National Congress Democratic Alliance Economic Freedom Fighters Inkatha Freedom Party Vryheidsfront Plus Other Ties between two parties








The results of the elections were as follows:

Political party Party leader 2014 2019
be right % Seats be right % +/- Seats +/- %
  African National Congress (ANC) Cyril Ramaphosa 11,436,921 62.15 249 10,026,475 57.50   4.65 230   19 57.50
  Democratic Alliance (DA) Mmusi Maimane 4,091,584 22.23 89 3,621,188 20.77   1.46 84   5 21.00
  Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema 1,169,259 6.35 25th 1,881,521 10.79   4.44 44   19 11.00
  Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Mangosuthu Buthelezi 441.854 2.40 10 588,839 3.38   1.98 14th   4 3.50
  Vryheidsfront Plus (VF +) Pieter Groenewald 165.715 0.90 4th 414.864 2.38   1.48 10   6 2.50
  African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) Kenneth Meshoe 104.039 0.57 3 146.262 0.84   0.27 4th   1 1.00
  United Democratic Movement (UDM) Bantu Holomisa 184,636 1.00 4th 78.030 0.45   0.55 2   2 0.50
  African Transformation Movement (ATM) Vuyolwethu Zungula - - - 76,830 0.44 New 2 New 0.50
  Good Patricia de Lille - - - 70,408 0.40 New 2 New 0.50
  National Freedom Party (NFP) Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi 288,742 1.57 6th 61,220 0.35   1.22 2   4 0.50
  African Independent Congress (AIC) Mandla Galo 97,642 0.53 3 48.107 0.28   0.15 2   1 0.50
  Congress of the People (COPE) Mosiuoa Lekota 123.235 0.67 3 47,461 0.27   0.40 2   1 0.50
  Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) Narius Moloto 37,784 0.21 1 32,677 0.19   0.02 1   0.25
  Al Jama-ah Ganief Hendricks 25,976 0.14 0 31,468 0.18   0.04 1   1 0.25
  African Security Congress - - - 26,263 0.15 New - New
  Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party - - - 24,439 0.14 New - New
  Black First Land First - - - 19,796 0.11 New - New
  African People's Convention 30,676 0.17 1 19,593 0.11   0.06 -   1
  African Alliance of Social Democrats - - - 18,834 0.11 New - New
  Capitalist Party of South Africa - - - 15,915 0.09 New - New
  Alliance for Transformation for All - - - 14,266 0.08 New - New
  Agang South Africa 52,350 0.28 2 13,856 0.08   0.20 -   2
  Azanian People's Organization 20,421 0.11 0 12,823 0.07   0.04 -  
  Independent Civic Organization 14,472 0.08 0 12,386 0.07   0.01 -  
  Minority front 22,589 0.12 0 11,961 0.07   0.05 -  
  Democratic Liberal Congress - - - 10,767 0.06 New - New
  Better Residents Association 1 15,271 0.08 0 9179 0.05   0.03 -  
  Forum for Service Delivery - - - 8525 0.05 New - New
  Front National 5138 0.03 0 7144 0.04   0.01 -  
  Country party - - - 7074 0.04 New - New
  African Covenant - - - 7019 0.04 New - New
  Patriotic Alliance 13,263 0.07 0 6660 0.04   0.03 -  
  African Democratic Change - - - 6499 0.04 New - New
  Economic Emancipation Forum - - - 6319 0.04 New - New
  Women Forward - - - 6108 0.04 New - New
  Christian Political Movement - - - 4980 0.03 New - New
  African Content Movement - - - 4841 0.03 New - New
  International Revelation Congress - - - 4247 0.02 New - New
  National People's Front - - - 4019 0.02 New - New
  African Renaissance Unity Party - - - 3860 0.02 New - New
  African Congress of Democrats - - - 3768 0.02 New - New
  South African Congress of Traditional Authorities - - - 3714 0.02 New - New
  Compatriots of South Africa - - - 3406 0.02 New - New
  People's Revolutionary Movement - - - 2844 0.02 New - New
  Power of Africans Unity - - - 2685 0.02 New - New
  Free Democrats - - - 2580 0.01 New - New
  South African Maintenance and Estate Beneficiaries Association - - - 2445 0.01 New - New
  National People's Ambassadors - - - 1979 0.01 New - New
Total valid votes 18,402,497 2 100 400 17,436,144 100 400   100
Invalid votes 251.960 235.472
Votes cast 18,654,457 17,671,616
Number of eligible voters and turnout 25,381,293 73.50% 26,779,025 65.99%   3.51%

1 2014 as the Bushbuckridge Residents Association
2 including 60,930 votes for parties that did not run in 2019

Thus, the ANC was able to defend the absolute majority despite again significant losses. The Democratic Alliance also suffered losses for the first time. In contrast, the Economic Freedom Fighters, which received over 10% of the vote for the first time, the Inkatha Freedom Party and the Vryheidsfront Plus were able to increase their share of the vote. All other parties achieved less than one percent of the votes.

Elections to the provincial assemblies

In the 2014 provincial elections, the ANC won with an absolute majority in eight of the nine provinces , and the DA won an absolute majority in the Western Cape . This picture was repeated in the 2019 provincial elections, so that these parties were able to hold their majorities despite losses. In detail, the following results were obtained:

Eastern Cape

Political party Result Seats +/-
African National Congress (ANC) 68.74% 44 −1
Democratic Alliance (DA) 15.73% 10 ± 0
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) 07.84% 05 +3
United Democratic Movement (UDM) 02.60% 02 −2
African Transformation Movement (ATM) 01.52% 01 +1
Vryheidsfront Plus (VF +) 00.58% 01 +1
Others 02.99% - −2

free State

Political party Result Seats +/-
African National Congress (ANC) 61.14% 19th −3
Democratic Alliance (DA) 17.58% 06th +1
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) 12.58% 04th +2
Vryheidsfront Plus (VF +) 03.96% 01 ± 0
Others 04.74% - ± 0

Gauteng

Political party Result Seats +/-
African National Congress (ANC) 50.19% 37 −3
Democratic Alliance (DA) 27.45% 20th −3
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) 14.69% 11 +3
Vryheidsfront Plus (VF +) 03.56% 03 +2
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) 00.89% 01 ± 0
African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) 00.71% 01 +1
Others 02.51% - ± 0

KwaZulu-Natal

Political party Result Seats +/-
African National Congress (ANC) 54.22% 44 −8
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) 16.34% 13 +4
Democratic Alliance (DA) 13.90% 11 +1
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) 09.71% 08th +6
National Freedom Party (NFP) 01.57% 01 −5
Minority Front (MF) 00.52% 01 ± 0
African Transformation Movement (ATM) 00.49% 01 +1
African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) 00.48% 01 +1
Others 02.77% - ± 0

Limpopo

Political party Result Seats +/-
African National Congress (ANC) 75.49% 38 −1
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) 14.43% 07th +1
Democratic Alliance (DA) 05.40% 03 ± 0
Vryheidsfront Plus (VF +) 01.42% 01 +1
Others 03.26% - −1

Mpumalanga

Political party Result Seats +/-
African National Congress (ANC) 70.58% 22nd −2
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) 12.79% 04th +2
Democratic Alliance (DA) 09.77% 03 ± 0
Vryheidsfront Plus (VF +) 02.43% 01 +1
Others 04.43% - −1

northwest

Political party Result Seats +/-
African National Congress (ANC) 61.87% 21st −2
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) 18.64% 06th +1
Democratic Alliance (DA) 11.18% 04th ± 0
Vryheidsfront Plus (VF +) 04.32% 02 +1
Others 03.99% - ± 0

Western cape

Political party Result Seats +/-
Democratic Alliance (DA) 55.45% 24 −2
African National Congress (ANC) 28.63% 12 −2
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) 04.04% 02 +1
Good 03.01% 01 +1
African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) 02.66% 01 ± 0
Vryheidsfront Plus (VF +) 01.56% 01 +1
Al Jama-ah 00.86% 01 +1
Others 03.79% - ± 0

North Cape

Political party Result Seats +/-
African National Congress (ANC) 57.54% 18th −2
Democratic Alliance (DA) 25.51% 08th +1
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) 09.71% 03 +1
Vryheidsfront Plus (VF +) 02.68% 01 +1
Others 04.56% - −1

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Election date May 8, 2019 has been set. deutschlandfunk.de from February 7, 2019, accessed on February 8, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c Information on the IEC ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ Zingisa Mvumvu: Mzwanele Manyi announced as policy chief of pro-Zuma party ATM. timeslive.co.za, January 9, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019
  4. ↑ 84 new political parties hoping for your vote in May elections. timeslive.co.za, January 10, 2019, accessed February 9, 2019
  5. ^ A b 48 political parties may contest polls in South Africa. africandailyvoice.com, March 20, 2019, accessed March 20, 2019
  6. ↑ Vhahangwele Nemakonde: here is a list of the 48 political parties contesting 2019 elections. The Citizen of March 20, 2019 (English), accessed April 20, 2019
  7. ↑ Registration statistics. elections.org.za, accessed April 10, 2019
  8. ↑ Fewer young people have registered to vote. news24.com of April 3, 2019 (English), accessed on May 4, 2019
  9. ↑ 9.2 million eligible voters are not registered for the 2019 elections. businesstech.co.za, January 30, 2019, accessed May 4, 2019
  10. ↑ Information from the IEC (English, PDF), accessed on April 5, 2014
  11. ^ Result of the parliamentary elections on www.elections.org.za, accessed on May 11, 2019.
  12. ↑ Results at www.elections.org.za, accessed on May 11, 2019.
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