1999 South African general election
South Africa's second non-racial general election, was held on 2 June 1999.
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This election was won by the governing African National Congress (ANC), who gained fourteen seats. Incumbent president Nelson Mandela declined to seek re-election as president. This election was notable for the sharp decline of the New National Party, previously the National Party (NP), which without former State President F.W. de Klerk lost more than half of their support. The liberal Democratic Party became the largest opposition party, after being the fifth largest party in the 1994 election. The number of parties represented in the National Assembly increased to thirteen, with the United Democratic Movement, jointly headed by former National Party member Roelf Meyer, and former ANC member Bantu Holomisa, being the most successful of the newcomers with fourteen seats.
National Assembly results
Presidential election in National Assembly
Thabo Mbeki was elected president (unopposed) by the new Assembly on 14 June 1999, succeeding Nelson Mandela.[2]
Provincial legislature results
Party | EC | FS | G | KZN | M | NW | NC | NP | WC | |
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African National Congress | 47 | 25 | 50 | 32 | 26 | 27 | 20 | 44 | 18 | |
New National Party | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 17 | |
Inkatha Freedom Party | 3 | 34 | ||||||||
Democratic Party | 4 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
United Democratic Movement | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Freedom Front | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
African Christian Democratic Party | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
United Christian Democratic Party | 3 | |||||||||
Minority Front | 2 | |||||||||
Pan Africanist Congress | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Federal Alliance | 1 | |||||||||
Total | 63 | 30 | 73 | 80 | 30 | 33 | 30 | 49 | 42 |
Eastern Cape
Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/−[note 3] | |
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African National Congress | 1,606,856 | 73.80 | −10.55 | 47 | −1 | |
United Democratic Movement[note 2] | 296,015 | 13.60 | +13.60 | 9 | +9 | |
Democratic Party | 136,859 | 6.29 | +4.24 | 4 | +3 | |
New National Party[note 1] | 70,141 | 3.22 | −6.61 | 2 | −4 | |
Pan Africanist Congress | 24,837 | 1.14 | −0.90 | 1 | 0 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 20,857 | 0.96 | +0.45 | 0 | 0 | |
Freedom Front | 7,287 | 0.33 | −0.46 | 0 | 0 | |
Inkatha Freedom Party | 7,166 | 0.33 | +0.16 | 0 | 0 | |
Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging[note 2] | 3,673 | 0.17 | +0.17 | 0 | 0 | |
Federal Alliance[note 2] | 3,575 | 0.16 | +0.16 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 2,177,266 | 100.00 | 63 | |||
Spoilt votes | 30,469 |
Free State
Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
African National Congress | 881,381 | 80.79 | +4.15 | 25 | +1 | |
Democratic Party | 58,163 | 5.33 | +4.77 | 2 | +2 | |
New National Party[note 1] | 56,740 | 5.20 | −7.39 | 2 | −2 | |
Freedom Front | 22,996 | 2.11 | −3.92 | 1 | −1 | |
United Democratic Movement[note 2] | 18,194 | 1.67 | +1.67 | 0 | 0 | |
Pan Africanist Congress | 12,548 | 1.15 | −0.66 | 0 | 0 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 9,827 | 0.90 | +0.45 | 0 | 0 | |
Federal Alliance[note 2] | 8,798 | 0.81 | +0.81 | 0 | 0 | |
United Christian Democratic Party[note 2] | 8,543 | 0.78 | +0.78 | 0 | 0 | |
Inkatha Freedom Party | 5,119 | 0.47 | −0.04 | 0 | 0 | |
Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging[note 2] | 4,390 | 0.40 | +0.40 | 0 | 0 | |
Unemployment Labour Alliance[note 2] | 2,974 | 0.27 | +0.27 | 0 | 0 | |
Socialist Party of Azania[note 2] | 1,235 | 0.11 | +0.11 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 1,090,908 | 100.00 | 30 | |||
Spoilt votes | 16,943 |
Gauteng
Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/−[note 4] | |
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African National Congress | 2,448,780 | 67.87 | +10.27 | 50 | 0 | |
Democratic Party | 658,236 | 17.95 | +12.63 | 13 | +8 | |
New National Party[note 1] | 142,579 | 3.89 | −19.99 | 3 | −18 | |
Inkatha Freedom Party | 128,807 | 3.51 | −0.15 | 3 | 0 | |
United Democratic Movement[note 2] | 71,630 | 1.95 | +1.95 | 1 | +1 | |
Freedom Front | 45,750 | 1.25 | −4.92 | 1 | −4 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 42,621 | 1.16 | +0.55 | 1 | 0 | |
Federal Alliance[note 2] | 32,494 | 0.89 | +0.89 | 1 | +1 | |
Pan Africanist Congress | 26,781 | 0.73 | −0.73 | 0 | −1 | |
Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging[note 2] | 11,450 | 0.31 | +0.31 | 0 | 0 | |
United Christian Democratic Party[note 2] | 8,642 | 0.24 | +0.24 | 0 | 0 | |
Azanian People's Organisation[note 2] | 5,896 | 0.16 | +0.16 | 0 | 0 | |
Socialist Party of Azania[note 2] | 1,990 | 0.05 | +0.05 | 0 | 0 | |
Labor Party[note 2] | 1,096 | 0.03 | +0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 3,666,752 | 100.00 | 73 | |||
Spoilt votes | 40,843 |
KwaZulu-Natal
Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/−[note 5] | |
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Inkatha Freedom Party | 1,241,522 | 41.90 | −8.43 | 34 | −7 | |
African National Congress | 1,167,094 | 39.38 | +7.15 | 32 | +6 | |
Democratic Party | 241,779 | 8.16 | +6.01 | 7 | +5 | |
New National Party[note 1] | 97,077 | 3.28 | −7.93 | 3 | −6 | |
Minority Front | 86,770 | 2.93 | +1.59 | 2 | +1 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 53,745 | 1.81 | +1.14 | 1 | 0 | |
United Democratic Movement[note 2] | 34,586 | 1.17 | +1.17 | 1 | +1 | |
Federal Alliance[note 2] | 9,762 | 0.33 | +0.33 | 0 | 0 | |
Pan Africanist Congress | 7,654 | 0.26 | −0.47 | 0 | −1 | |
Freedom Front | 6,804 | 0.23 | −0.28 | 0 | 0 | |
Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging[note 2] | 5,801 | 0.20 | +0.20 | 0 | 0 | |
Azanian People's Organisation[note 2] | 5,052 | 0.17 | +0.17 | 0 | 0 | |
Socialist Party of Azania[note 2] | 3,451 | 0.12 | +0.12 | 0 | 0 | |
Mass United Movement[note 2] | 2,261 | 0.08 | +0.08 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 2,963,358 | 100.00 | 80 | |||
Spoilt votes | 46,141 |
Mpumalanga
Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | |
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African National Congress | 954,788 | 84.83 | +4.13 | 26 | +1 | |
Democratic Party | 50,421 | 4.48 | +3.92 | 1 | +1 | |
New National Party[note 1] | 27,909 | 2.48 | −6.52 | 1 | −2 | |
Freedom Front | 19,170 | 1.70 | −3.96 | 1 | −1 | |
United Democratic Movement[note 2] | 16,013 | 1.42 | +1.42 | 1 | +1 | |
Inkatha Freedom Party | 15,901 | 1.41 | −0.11 | 0 | 0 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 12,586 | 1.12 | +0.64 | 0 | 0 | |
Federal Alliance[note 2] | 9,019 | 0.80 | +0.80 | 0 | 0 | |
Pan Africanist Congress | 7,296 | 0.65 | −0.99 | 0 | 0 | |
Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging[note 2] | 4,520 | 0.40 | +0.40 | 0 | 0 | |
Sindawonye Progressive Party[note 2] | 4,318 | 0.38 | +0.38 | 0 | 0 | |
United Christian Democratic Party[note 2] | 2,553 | 0.23 | +0.23 | 0 | 0 | |
Azanian People's Organisation[note 2] | 1,090 | 0.10 | +0.10 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 1,125,584 | 100.00 | 30 | |||
Spoilt votes | 21,502 |
North West
Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/−[note 6] | |
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African National Congress | 1,030,901 | 78.97 | −4.36 | 27 | +1 | |
United Christian Democratic Party[note 2] | 124,874 | 9.57 | +9.57 | 3 | +3 | |
Democratic Party | 42,593 | 3.26 | +2.76 | 1 | +1 | |
New National Party[note 1] | 29,931 | 2.29 | −6.55 | 1 | −2 | |
Freedom Front | 17,964 | 1.38 | −3.26 | 1 | 0 | |
United Democratic Movement[note 2] | 16,785 | 1.29 | +1.29 | 0 | 0 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 12,227 | 0.94 | +0.58 | 0 | 0 | |
Pan Africanist Congress | 9,613 | 0.74 | −1.00 | 0 | 0 | |
Federal Alliance[note 2] | 7,157 | 0.55 | +0.55 | 0 | 0 | |
Inkatha Freedom Party | 6,759 | 0.52 | +0.14 | 0 | 0 | |
Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging[note 2] | 6,637 | 0.51 | +0.51 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 1,305,441 | 100.00 | 33 | |||
Spoilt votes | 21,722 |
Northern Cape
Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | |
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African National Congress | 210,837 | 64.32 | +14.58 | 20 | +5 | |
New National Party[note 1] | 79,214 | 24.17 | −16.31 | 8 | −4 | |
Democratic Party | 15,632 | 4.77 | +2.90 | 1 | 0 | |
Freedom Front | 5,446 | 1.66 | −4.31 | 1 | −1 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 5,004 | 1.53 | +1.13 | 0 | 0 | |
United Democratic Movement[note 2] | 2,936 | 0.90 | +0.90 | 0 | 0 | |
Pan Africanist Congress | 2,158 | 0.66 | −0.27 | 0 | 0 | |
Federal Alliance[note 2] | 1,735 | 0.53 | +0.53 | 0 | 0 | |
Inkatha Freedom Party | 1,728 | 0.53 | +0.11 | 0 | 0 | |
Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging[note 2] | 1,722 | 0.53 | +0.53 | 0 | 0 | |
Azanian People's Organisation[note 2] | 1,360 | 0.41 | +0.41 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 327,772 | 100.00 | 30 | |||
Spoilt votes | 4,897 |
Northern Province
Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/−[note 7] | |
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African National Congress | 1,464,432 | 88.29 | −3.35 | 44 | +6 | |
United Democratic Movement[note 2] | 41,700 | 2.51 | +2.51 | 1 | +1 | |
New National Party[note 1] | 28,159 | 1.70 | −1.57 | 1 | 0 | |
Democratic Party | 23,486 | 1.42 | +1.21 | 1 | +1 | |
Pan Africanist Congress | 23,325 | 1.41 | +0.14 | 1 | +1 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 18,281 | 1.10 | +0.72 | 1 | +1 | |
Ximoko Party[note 8] | 13,817 | 0.83 | +0.57 | 0 | 0 | |
Freedom Front | 10,727 | 0.65 | −1.50 | 0 | −1 | |
Azanian People's Organisation[note 2] | 8,931 | 0.54 | +0.54 | 0 | 0 | |
Dabalorivhuwa Patriotic Front[note 2] | 8,229 | 0.50 | +0.50 | 0 | 0 | |
Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging[note 2] | 6,598 | 0.40 | +0.40 | 0 | 0 | |
Inkatha Freedom Party | 5,644 | 0.34 | +0.22 | 0 | 0 | |
Federal Alliance[note 2] | 5,365 | 0.32 | +0.32 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 1,658,694 | 100.00 | 49 | |||
Spoilt votes | 25,137 |
Western Cape
Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | |
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African National Congress | 668,106 | 42.07 | +9.07 | 18 | +4 | |
New National Party[note 1] | 609,612 | 38.39 | −14.86 | 17 | −6 | |
Democratic Party | 189,183 | 11.91 | +5.27 | 5 | +2 | |
African Christian Democratic Party | 44,323 | 2.79 | +1.59 | 1 | 0 | |
United Democratic Movement[note 2] | 38,071 | 2.40 | +2.40 | 1 | +1 | |
Africa Moral Party[note 9] | 9,513 | 0.60 | −0.38 | 0 | 0 | |
Pan Africanist Congress | 7,708 | 0.49 | −0.58 | 0 | 0 | |
Freedom Front | 6,394 | 0.40 | −1.66 | 0 | −1 | |
Federal Alliance[note 2] | 4,153 | 0.26 | +0.26 | 0 | 0 | |
Inkatha Freedom Party | 2,895 | 0.18 | −0.17 | 0 | 0 | |
Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging[note 2] | 2,854 | 0.18 | +0.18 | 0 | 0 | |
Government by the People Green Party[note 10] | 2,453 | 0.15 | +0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
National Coalition Party[note 2] | 1,126 | 0.07 | +0.07 | 0 | 0 | |
People's Liberation Party[note 2] | 915 | 0.06 | +0.06 | 0 | 0 | |
Workers International Vanguard League[note 11] | 672 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 1,587,978 | 100.00 | 42 | |||
Spoilt votes | 13,499 |
NCOP seats
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) consists of 90 members, ten elected by each provincial legislature. The Members of NCOP have to be elected in proportion to the party membership of the provincial legislature.
Party | Delegate type | EC | FS | G | KZN | M | NW | NC | NP | WC | Total | ||
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African National Congress | Permanent | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 34 | 63 | |
Special | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 29 | |||
New National Party | Permanent | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | |||||
Special | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
Democratic Party | Permanent | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | |||
Special | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Inkatha Freedom Party | Permanent | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
Special | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
United Democratic Movement | Permanent | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
Special | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
African Christian Democratic Party | Permanent | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
United Christian Democratic Party | Permanent | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Total | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 90 |
Notes to the tables
- As National Party.
- Successor to the National Party.
- Party did not contest the previous election to this legislature.
- The legislature expanded from 56 to 63 members at this election.
- The legislature shrank from 86 to 73 members at this election.
- The legislature shrank from 81 to 80 members at this election.
- The legislature expanded from 30 to 33 members at this election.
- The legislature expanded from 40 to 49 members at this election.
- Successor to the Ximoko Progressive Party.
- The Africa Muslim Party registered as the Africa Moral Party in this election.
- Successor to the Green Party.
- Successor to the Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International.
References
- "June 2, 1999 General Election Results - Republic of South Africa Totals". Election Resources on the Internet. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- BBC
- "June 2, 1999 General Election Results - Eastern Cape". Election Resources on the Internet. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- "June 2, 1999 General Election Results - Free State". Election Resources on the Internet. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- "June 2, 1999 General Election Results - Gauteng". Election Resources on the Internet. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- "June 2, 1999 General Election Results - KwaZulu-Natal". Election Resources on the Internet. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- "June 2, 1999 General Election Results - Mpumalanga". Election Resources on the Internet. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- "June 2, 1999 General Election Results - North West". Election Resources on the Internet. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- "June 2, 1999 General Election Results - Northern Cape". Election Resources on the Internet. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- "June 2, 1999 General Election Results - Limpopo". Election Resources on the Internet. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- "June 2, 1999 General Election Results - Western Cape". Election Resources on the Internet. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
- South Africa Survey 2002/03. South African Institute of Race Relations. 2003. p. 470.