2009 South African general election

South Africa held national and provincial elections to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each province on 22 April 2009.[1]

2009 South African general election
22 April 2009
All 400 seats to the National Assembly of South Africa
Turnout77.30%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Jacob Zuma Helen Zille Mosiuoa Lekota
Party ANC Democratic Alliance Congress of the People
Last election 279 seats, 69.69% 50 seats, 12.37% n/a
Seats before 297 47 did not contest
Seats won 264 67 30
Seat change 33 20 30 (new)
Popular vote 11,650,748 2,945,829 1,311,027
Percentage 65.90% 16.66% 7.42%
Swing 3.79% 4.29% new
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi Patricia de Lille Bantu Holomisa
Party IFP Independent Democrats UDM
Last election 28 seats, 6.97% 7 seats, 1.73% 9 seats, 2.28%
Seats before 34 4 6
Seats won 18 4 4
Seat change 16 0 2
Popular vote 804,260 162,915 149,680
Percentage 4.55% 0.92% 0.85%
Swing 2.42% 0.81% 1.43%
Voting districts won by each party. Green: African National Congress; Blue: Democratic Alliance; Yellow: Congress of the People; Red: Inkatha Freedom Party; Orange: Independent Democrats; Purple: United Democratic Movement; Brown: other parties; Grey: tied between two or more parties.
President before election

Kgalema Motlanthe
ANC

 Elected President

Jacob Zuma
ANC

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The National Assembly consists of 400 members elected by proportional representation with a closed list approach. Two hundred members are elected from national party lists; the other 200 are elected from provincial party lists in each of the nine provinces. The President of South Africa is chosen by the National Assembly after each election; in 2009, the presidential election was on 6 May. The premiers of each province are chosen by the winning majority in each provincial legislature.

This was the fourth general election held since the end of the apartheid era.

The North Gauteng High Court ruled on 9 February 2009 that South African citizens living abroad should be allowed to vote in elections.[2] The judgment was confirmed by the Constitutional Court on 12 March 2009, when it decided that overseas voters who were already registered would be allowed to vote.[3] Also, registered voters who found themselves outside their registered voting districts on election day were permitted to vote for the national ballot at any voting station in South Africa.

Background and campaign

African National Congress – ruling party

The African National Congress was the ruling party in parliament going into the 2009 elections, having won 69.69% of the vote at the 2004 elections. During its term in office a number of internal changes occurred, the primary one being the election of Jacob Zuma to the party presidency ahead of Thabo Mbeki at the 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress held on 18 December 2007.[4] Zuma's victory in the election was partly due to the wide degree of support for him from the ANC Youth League, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.

Subsequent to this, in 2008 Zuma's ongoing corruption trial in relation to a multi-billion Rand arms deal was dismissed by the courts, which insinuated that Mbeki had unduly influenced the investigation into Zuma. In light of the court's findings, the ANC's National Executive Committee asked Mbeki to resign as president of the country, which he duly did on 20 September 2008.

Mbeki was replaced by Kgalema Motlanthe, who had been elected as ANC deputy president at the 2007 conference. Motlanthe was not the presidential candidate of the ANC for the 2009 general election, but rather the current President of the ANC, Jacob Zuma.[5] The ANC's electoral list was led by Zuma, followed by Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa Baleka Mbete, finance minister Trevor Manuel and Winnie Mandela, former wife of Nelson Mandela.[6]

The recall of Mbeki, amongst other issues, created severe tensions and splits within the party, and eventually led to the formation of the Congress of the People, a new political party formed by former ANC members. Nevertheless, most pre-poll predictions gave the ANC between sixty and seventy per cent of the popular vote; even the lowest prediction, giving the ANC 47 per cent, still rendered it comfortably South Africa's most favoured political party.[7]

Democratic Alliance – official opposition

The Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party, had undergone a leadership change, with Cape Town mayor and former anti-apartheid activist Helen Zille having succeeded long-serving Tony Leon in May 2007.

With a disproportionate focus on the Western Cape province, which it had identified as winnable, the DA launched its election campaign with the slogan "Vote to Win". It released its manifesto on 14 February.[8]

The party was expected to perform strongly in the Western Cape, with analysts suggesting it would take control of the province from the ruling ANC.[9] The ANC's support in the province was on the wane, while the DA had performed well in by-elections in the province leading up to the poll.[10]

The party projected that it would govern in the Western Cape province – a task made easier by the ANC-COPE split – though it expected to need to form a governing coalition in order to do so.[11] The party anticipated that it would take control of several other major cities and towns in the 2011 local elections, and, with what it termed a "realignment of SA politics", predicted it would take its "winning streak" into the 2014 elections, when it plans to challenge for the mantle of ruling party.[12]

The DA's relationship with ANC breakaway party Cope started strongly. Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota showed a willingness to co-operate with Zille in the future.[13][14] Subsequently, Zille criticised COPE's internal structures and suggested many of the party's new members were merely Mbeki loyalists hoping to resurrect defunct political careers.[15]

In the closing stages of the DA's campaign, it launched its "Stop Zuma" drive, which came under considerable criticism in the press—political analysts dubbing the tactic an example of "negative" politics. Zille later retorted, however, that what was really negative was the idea of handing over the right to change the Constitution unilaterally to Jacob Zuma and his "closed, crony network", as they would abuse that right both to enrich themselves and to protect themselves from prosecution. She later claimed the decline in the ANC's support base and the concomitant increase in that of her own party was a result of the DA 'Stop Zuma' campaign.

Election boycott

A number of communities, organisations, social movements and well-known personalities threatened not to vote in the 2009 elections.[16] The most well-known personality was Archbishop Desmond Tutu who at first said he would not vote but then changed his mind.[17] South Africa's Poor People's Alliance, the Anti-Privatisation Forum, NOPE, and the independent farmworkers' union Sikhula Sonke resolved to boycott the election under the banner No Land! No House! No Vote!.[18]

Results
Most popular party in each ward, depicted as a map (top), and as a cartogram in which size is proportional to the number of votes cast (bottom).

     African National Congress
     Democratic Alliance
     Congress of the People
     Inkatha Freedom Party
     Independent Democrats
     United Democratic Movement

The darker shade indicates a majority, while the lighter shade indicates a non-majority plurality.
Map showing, for each municipality, the percentage point change in the ANC's share of the vote since the 2004 election
  37.5–50 pp to the ANC
  25–37.5 pp to the ANC
  12.5–25 pp to the ANC
  0–12.5 pp to the ANC
  0–12.5 pp away from the ANC
  12.5–25 pp away from the ANC
  25–37.5 pp away from the ANC
  37.5–50 pp away from the ANC

The ANC, which has been in power since 1994, obtained 65.90% of valid votes cast on the national ballot, making it just shy of being able to change the constitution. The DA retained its position as the official opposition and also won the election in the Western Cape province with an outright majority.

Some 23-million people were registered for the 2009 general elections, which was about 2.5 million more than in 2004. There was a 77.3% turnout of registered voters, 1.34% of whom spoiled their ballots rendering them invalid.[19] About 12-million people eligible to vote either did not register to vote (about 7-million), or did register but did not vote (5.4 million).[20] In this election, there was a slight decrease in voter abstention though there was at least one high-profile election and registration boycotts campaign, the No Land! No House! No Vote! Campaign.

The Independent Electoral Commission made results available on their website as they were received from voting districts, filtered by national, provincial, municipality, and voting district.[21]

National Assembly results
 Summary of the 22 April 2009 National Assembly election results[22]
Party Leader Votes % +/− Seats +/− from last
election[lower-alpha 1]		 +/− from before
this election[lower-alpha 2]
ANC Jacob Zuma 11,650,748 65.90 −3.80 264 −15 −33
Democratic Alliance Helen Zille 2,945,829 16.66 +4.29 67 +17 +20
Congress of the People[lower-alpha 3] Mosiuoa Lekota 1,311,027 7.42 +7.42 30 +30 +30
IFP Mangosuthu Buthelezi 804,260 4.55 −2.42 18 −10 −5
Independent Democrats Patricia de Lille 162,915 0.92 −0.81 4 −3 0
UDM Bantu Holomisa 149,680 0.85 −1.43 4 −5 −2
Freedom Front Plus Pieter Mulder 146,796 0.83 −0.06 4 0 0
ACDP Kenneth Meshoe 142,658 0.81 −0.80 3 −4 −1
United Christian Democratic Party Lucas Mangope 66,086 0.37 −0.38 2 −1 −1
Pan Africanist Congress Letlapa Mphahlele 48,530 0.27 −0.45 1 −2 0
Minority Front Amichand Rajbansi 43,474 0.25 −0.11 1 −1 −1
Azanian People's Organisation Jacob Dikobo 38,245 0.22 −0.03 1 0 0
African People's Convention[lower-alpha 4] Themba Godi 35,867 0.20 +0.20 1 +1 −1
Movement Democratic Party[lower-alpha 3] 29,747 0.17 +0.17 0 0 0
Al Jama-ah[lower-alpha 3] 25,947 0.15 +0.15 0 0 0
Christian Democratic Alliance[lower-alpha 5] Theunis Botha 11,638 0.07 −0.13 0 0 −1
National Democratic Convention[lower-alpha 6] 10,830 0.06 +0.06 0 0 −4
New Vision Party[lower-alpha 3] 9,296 0.05 +0.05 0 0 0
United Independent Front[lower-alpha 6] Nomakhaya Mdaka 8,872 0.05 +0.05 0 0 0
Great Kongress of South Africa[lower-alpha 3] 8,271 0.05 +0.05 0 0 0
South African Democratic Congress[lower-alpha 3] Ziba Jiyane 6,035 0.03 +0.03 0 0 0
Keep It Straight and Simple Party 5,440 0.03 −0.01 0 0 0
Pan Africanist Movement[lower-alpha 3] 5,426 0.03 +0.03 0 0 0
Alliance of Free Democrats[lower-alpha 6] 5,178 0.03 +0.03 0 0 0
Women Forward[lower-alpha 3] 5,087 0.03 +0.03 0 0 0
National Party South Africa[lower-alpha 3] 3,378 0.02 +0.02 0 0 0
A Party[lower-alpha 3] 2,847 0.02 +0.02 0 0 0
Total 17,680,729 100.00 400
Spoilt votes 239,237

Provincial legislature results

The following table summarises the results of the elections to the provincial legislatures. The majority party in each province is indicated in bold.

 Seat allocation summary of the 22 April 2009 provincial legislature election results
Party EC FS G KZN L M NW NC WC
ANC 44 22 47 51 43 27 25 19 14
Democratic Alliance 6 3 16 7 2 2 3 4 22
Congress of the People 9 4 6 1 4 1 3 5 3
IFP 1 18
Independent Democrats 1 2 2
ACDP 1 1 1
UDM 3
Freedom Front Plus 1 1
Minority Front 2
United Christian Democratic Party 2
African Independent Congress 1
Total 63 30 73 80 49 30 33 30 42

Eastern Cape
 Summary of the 22 April 2009 Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature election results[23]
Party Votes % +/− Seats +/− from last
election[lower-alpha 1]		 +/− from before
this election[lower-alpha 2]
ANC 1,552,676 68.82 −10.45 44 −7 −9
Congress of the People[lower-alpha 3] 308,439 13.67 +13.67 9 +9 +9
Democratic Alliance 225,310 9.99 +2.65 6 +1 +1
UDM 93,196 4.13 −5.10 3 −3 −1
African Independent Congress[lower-alpha 3] 17,306 0.77 +0.77 1 +1 +1
Pan Africanist Congress 12,108 0.54 −0.46 0 −1 0
ACDP 11,974 0.53 −0.25 0 0 0
Independent Democrats 10,466 0.46 −0.31 0 0 0
Azanian People's Organisation 4,598 0.20 +0.03 0 0 0
African People's Convention[lower-alpha 4] 4,517 0.20 +0.20 0 0 −1
Freedom Front Plus 4,428 0.20 −0.06 0 0 0
IFP 2,270 0.10 −0.10 0 0 0
National Democratic Convention[lower-alpha 6] 2,027 0.09 +0.09 0 0 0
Pan Africanist Movement[lower-alpha 3] 1,921 0.09 +0.09 0 0 0
United Christian Democratic Party 1,908 0.08 −0.04 0 0 0
Christian Democratic Alliance[lower-alpha 3] 1,663 0.07 +0.07 0 0 0
New Vision Party[lower-alpha 3] 1,281 0.06 +0.06 0 0 0
Total 2,256,088 100.00 63
Spoilt votes 32,299

Free State
 Summary of the 22 April 2009 Free State Provincial Legislature election results[24]
Party Votes % +/− Seats +/− [lower-alpha 7]
ANC 734,688 71.10 −10.68 22 −3
Congress of the People[lower-alpha 3] 120,018 11.61 +11.61 4 +4
Democratic Alliance 119,844 11.60 +3.12 3 0
Freedom Front Plus 20,780 2.01 −0.45 1 0
Dikwankwetla Party 11,257 1.09 +0.12 0 0
ACDP 7,556 0.73 −0.57 0 −1
UDM 3,722 0.36 −0.52 0 0
United Christian Democratic Party 3,459 0.33 −0.44 0 0
Pan Africanist Congress 3,449 0.33 −0.85 0 0
African People's Convention[lower-alpha 4] 3,200 0.31 +0.31 0 0
IFP 2,232 0.22 −0.14 0 0
Independent Democrats 1,654 0.16 −0.36 0 0
National Democratic Convention[lower-alpha 6] 1,065 0.10 +0.10 0 0
Peace and Justice Congress[lower-alpha 3] 398 0.04 +0.04 0 0
Total 1,033,322 100.00 30
Spoilt votes 15,744

Gauteng
 Summary of the 22 April 2009 Gauteng Provincial Legislature election results[25]
Party Votes % +/− Seats +/− from last
election[lower-alpha 1]		 +/− from before
this election[lower-alpha 2]
ANC 2,662,013 64.04 −4.36 47 −4 −4
Democratic Alliance 908,616 21.86 +1.08 16 +1 +3
Congress of the People[lower-alpha 3] 323,327 7.78 +7.78 6 +6 +6
Freedom Front Plus 67,660 1.63 +0.29 1 0 −1
IFP 61,856 1.49 −1.02 1 −1 −1
ACDP 36,099 0.87 −0.77 1 0 0
Independent Democrats 25,243 0.61 −0.92 1 0 −1
UDM 16,480 0.40 −0.59 0 −1 0
Pan Africanist Congress 12,880 0.31 −0.54 0 −1 0
United Christian Democratic Party 10,091 0.24 −0.02 0 0 0
Azanian People's Organisation 8,927 0.21 −0.04 0 0 0
Movement Democratic Party[lower-alpha 3] 5,731 0.14 +0.14 0 0 0
African People's Convention[lower-alpha 4] 5,123 0.12 +0.12 0 0 −1
Christian Democratic Alliance[lower-alpha 8] 2,901 0.07 −0.16 0 0 0
African Christian Alliance[lower-alpha 3] 2,541 0.06 +0.06 0 0 0
Women Forward[lower-alpha 3] 1,974 0.05 +0.05 0 0 0
Great Kongress of South Africa[lower-alpha 3] 1,909 0.05 +0.05 0 0 0
National Democratic Convention[lower-alpha 6] 1,497 0.04 +0.04 0 0 0
Alliance of Free Democrats[lower-alpha 6] 1,101 0.03 +0.03 0 0 −1
New Vision Party[lower-alpha 3] 1,079 0.03 +0.03 0 0 0
Total 4,157,048 100.00 73
Spoilt votes 42,815

KwaZulu-Natal
 Summary of the 22 April 2009 KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature election results[26]
Party Votes % +/− Seats +/− from last
election[lower-alpha 1]		 +/− from before
this election[lower-alpha 2]
ANC 2,192,516 62.95 +15.97 51 +13 +10
IFP 780,027 22.40 −14.42 18 −12 −9
Democratic Alliance 318,559 9.15 +0.80 7 0 +2
Minority Front 71,507 2.05 −0.56 2 0 0
Congress of the People[lower-alpha 3] 44,890 1.29 +1.29 1 +1 +1
ACDP 23,537 0.68 −1.11 1 −1 0
UDM 7,953 0.23 −0.52 0 −1 −1
Al Jama-ah[lower-alpha 3] 7,612 0.22 +0.22 0 0 0
National Democratic Convention[lower-alpha 6] 6,881 0.20 +0.20 0 0 −3
Independent Democrats 6,853 0.20 −0.30 0 0 0
Freedom Front Plus 5,760 0.17 −0.12 0 0 0
African People's Convention[lower-alpha 4] 5,087 0.15 +0.15 0 0 0
South African Democratic Congress[lower-alpha 3] 3,883 0.11 +0.11 0 0 0
Pan Africanist Congress 2,578 0.07 −0.11 0 0 0
Women Forward[lower-alpha 3] 1,816 0.05 +0.05 0 0 0
United Christian Democratic Party 1,798 0.05 −0.09 0 0 0
Great Kongress of South Africa[lower-alpha 3] 1,730 0.05 +0.05 0 0 0
Total 3,482,987 100.00 80
Spoilt votes 43,713

Limpopo
 Summary of the 22 April 2009 Limpopo Legislature election results[27]
Party Votes % +/− Seats +/− from last
election[lower-alpha 1]		 +/− from before
this election[lower-alpha 2]
ANC 1,265,631 84.88 −4.30 43 −2 −3
Congress of the People[lower-alpha 3] 112,325 7.53 +7.53 4 +4 +4
Democratic Alliance 51,856 3.48 −0.11 2 0 +1
ACDP 10,246 0.69 −0.58 0 −1 −1
Freedom Front Plus 9,035 0.61 +0.01 0 0 0
Pan Africanist Congress 7,934 0.53 −0.41 0 0 0
New Vision Party[lower-alpha 3] 6,497 0.44 +0.44 0 0 0
Azanian People's Organisation 5,640 0.38 −0.13 0 0 0
UDM 5,193 0.35 −1.37 0 −1 0
African People's Convention[lower-alpha 4] 4,455 0.30 +0.30 0 0 0
Ximoko Party 3,452 0.23 −0.36 0 0 0
United Independent Front[lower-alpha 6] 1,769 0.12 +0.12 0 0 −1
Black Consciousness Party[lower-alpha 3] 1,432 0.10 +0.10 0 0 0
Independent Democrats 1,333 0.09 −0.08 0 0 0
United Christian Democratic Party 1,320 0.09 −0.13 0 0 0
Alliance of Free Democrats[lower-alpha 6] 1,041 0.07 +0.07 0 0 0
Women Forward[lower-alpha 3] 977 0.07 +0.07 0 0 0
IFP[lower-alpha 3] 936 0.06 +0.06 0 0 0
Total 1,491,072 100.00 49
Spoilt votes 22,549

Mpumalanga
 Summary of the 22 April 2009 Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature election results[28]
Party Votes % +/− Seats +/− from last
election[lower-alpha 1]		 +/− from before
this election[lower-alpha 2]
ANC 1,110,190 85.55 −0.76 27 0 0
Democratic Alliance 97,204 7.49 +0.55 2 0 0
Congress of the People[lower-alpha 3] 37,789 2.91 +2.91 1 +1 +1
Freedom Front Plus 11,590 0.89 −0.34 0 −1 0
ACDP 6,565 0.51 −0.58 0 0 0
IFP 6,540 0.50 −0.45 0 0 0
Sindawonye Progressive Party 6,423 0.49 −0.04 0 0 0
African People's Convention[lower-alpha 4] 4,834 0.37 +0.37 0 0 0
Pan Africanist Congress 4,097 0.32 −0.37 0 0 0
UDM 3,366 0.26 −0.74 0 0 0
Azanian People's Organisation 2,928 0.23 +0.04 0 0 0
Christian Party[lower-alpha 6] 2,435 0.19 +0.19 0 0 −1
Independent Democrats 1,527 0.12 −0.19 0 0 0
National Democratic Convention[lower-alpha 6] 1,374 0.11 +0.11 0 0 0
United Christian Democratic Party 913 0.07 −0.10 0 0 0
Total 1,297,775 100.00 30
Spoilt votes 19,119

North West
 Summary of the 22 April 2009 North West Provincial Legislature election results[29]
Party Votes % +/− Seats +/− [lower-alpha 7]
ANC 783,794 72.89 −7.82 25 −2
Congress of the People[lower-alpha 3] 89,573 8.33 +8.33 3 +3
Democratic Alliance 88,728 8.25 +3.25 3 +1
United Christian Democratic Party 56,678 5.27 −3.22 2 −1
Freedom Front Plus 19,463 1.81 +0.49 0 −1
ACDP 7,366 0.69 −0.48 0 0
UDM 5,467 0.51 −0.46 0 0
Independent Democrats 4,984 0.46 +0.02 0 0
Movement Democratic Party[lower-alpha 3] 4,432 0.41 +0.41 0 0
African People's Convention[lower-alpha 4] 3,116 0.29 +0.29 0 0
Pan Africanist Congress 2,831 0.26 −0.58 0 0
Azanian People's Organisation 2,712 0.25 −0.03 0 0
South African Political Party[lower-alpha 3] 1,832 0.17 +0.17 0 0
African Christian Alliance[lower-alpha 3] 1,750 0.16 +0.16 0 0
IFP 1,619 0.15 −0.10 0 0
National Democratic Convention[lower-alpha 6] 978 0.09 +0.09 0 0
Total 1,075,323 100.00 33
Spoilt votes 21,007

Northern Cape
 Summary of the 22 April 2009 Northern Cape Provincial Legislature election results[30]
Party Votes % +/− Seats +/− from last
election[lower-alpha 1]		 +/− from before
this election[lower-alpha 2]
ANC 245,699 60.75 −8.08 19 −2 −6
Congress of the People[lower-alpha 3] 67,416 16.67 +16.67 5 +5 +5
Democratic Alliance 50,817 12.57 +1.49 4 +1 +2
Independent Democrats 19,995 4.94 −2.11 2 0 +1
Freedom Front Plus 5,034 1.24 −0.31 0 −1 −1
United Christian Democratic Party 4,889 1.21 +0.88 0 0 0
ACDP 4,041 1.00 −0.88 0 −1 −1
Azanian People's Organisation 2,439 0.60 +0.09 0 0 0
African People's Convention[lower-alpha 4] 1,364 0.34 +0.34 0 0 0
Pan Africanist Congress 882 0.22 −0.22 0 0 0
IFP 757 0.19 −0.05 0 0 0
UDM 604 0.15 −0.30 0 0 0
Christian Democratic Alliance[lower-alpha 3] 481 0.12 +0.12 0 0 0
Total 404,418 100.00 30
Spoilt votes 6,190

Western Cape
Main article: 2009 Western Cape provincial election
 Summary of the 22 April 2009 Western Cape Provincial Parliament election results[31]
Party Votes % +/− Seats +/− from last
election[lower-alpha 1]		 +/− from before
this election[lower-alpha 2]
Democratic Alliance 1,012,568 51.46 +24.35 22 +10 +11
ANC 620,918 31.55 −13.70 14 −5 −13
Congress of the People[lower-alpha 3] 152,356 7.74 +7.74 3 +3 +3
Independent Democrats 92,116 4.68 −3.16 2 −1 +1
ACDP 28,995 1.47 −1.97 1 −1 −1
UDM 14,013 0.71 −1.04 0 −1 0
Al Jama-ah[lower-alpha 3] 9,039 0.46 +0.46 0 0 0
Freedom Front Plus 8,384 0.43 −0.19 0 0 0
Pan Africanist Congress 4,467 0.23 −0.19 0 0 0
Africa Muslim Party 4,333 0.22 −0.48 0 0 0
Christian Democratic Alliance[lower-alpha 9] 3,987 0.20 −0.47 0 0 0
National Party[lower-alpha 3] 3,378 0.17 +0.17 0 0 0
Cape Party[lower-alpha 3] 2,552 0.13 +0.13 0 0 0
National Alliance[lower-alpha 4] 1,996 0.10 +0.10 0 0 0
African People's Convention[lower-alpha 4] 1,778 0.09 +0.09 0 0 0
United Christian Democratic Party 1,552 0.08 −0.15 0 0 0
Azanian People's Organisation 1,291 0.07 −0.03 0 0 0
United Independent Front[lower-alpha 6] 1,178 0.06 +0.06 0 0 −1
IFP 1,158 0.06 −0.08 0 0 0
Peace and Justice Congress 630 0.03 −0.18 0 0 0
Universal Party 599 0.03 −0.02 0 0 0
National Democratic Convention[lower-alpha 6] 463 0.02 +0.02 0 0 0
Total 1,967,751 100.00 42
Spoilt votes 20,026

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.

 Determination of delegates to the National Council of Provinces after the 22 April 2009 provincial elections
Party Delegate type Province Total
EC FS G KZN L M NW NC WC
ANC Permanent 4 4 4 4 5 5 4 3 2 35 62
Special 3 3 3 3 4 4 3 3 1 27
Democratic Alliance Permanent 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 10 13
Special 1 2 3
Congress of the People Permanent 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 8
Special 1 1
Independent Democrats Permanent 1 1 2
Special 1 1
IFP Permanent 1 1 2
Special 1 1
Freedom Front Plus Special 1 1
United Christian Democratic Party Special 1 1
UDM Special 1 1
Total 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 90

Aftermath

The ANC received widespread congratulations for its decisive national victory, both from international and domestic sources. This included the opposition, with DA leader Helen Zille acknowledging that the people had given it a strong mandate to rule. "We trust that the ANC will not abuse this confidence, and will govern well and in the interests of all South Africans."[32] However, with 65.9% of the vote and 264 seats in the National Assembly (down from 74.3% and 297 seats), the ANC no longer had the two-thirds majority it needed to change the Constitution unilaterally. The governing party had lost considerable support in 8 of the 9 provinces, partially compensated for by a big increase in KwaZulu-Natal at the expense of the IFP.

Thanking supporters the following week,[33] DA leader Helen Zille related proudly that her party had achieved all three of its primary objectives: it had kept the ANC below a two-thirds majority (albeit only just), won an outright majority in the Western Cape and significantly improved its standing in parliament.[34] Zille saw the results as a vindication of the party's statement at the beginning of its campaign that the only two genuine political forces in South Africa were the DA and the ANC, with the latter losing support while the former consistently gained it, and voters refusing to waste their ballots on small, insignificant parties.

Notes to the tables
  1. Change in seats compared to the composition of the legislature after the election of 14 April 2004.
  2. Change in seats compared to the composition of the legislature after the second floor-crossing period that ended on 15 September 2007.
  3. Party did not contest the previous election to this legislature.
  4. Party did not contest the previous election to this legislature, having been created during the floor-crossing period of 2007.
  5. Successor to the Christian Democratic Party, the Federation of Democrats and the New Labour Party in this legislature.
  6. Party did not contest the previous election to this legislature, having been created during the floor-crossing period of 2005.
  7. No members of this legislature crossed the floor during the 2005 or 2007 floor-crossing periods.
  8. Successor to the Christian Democratic Party in this legislature.
  9. Successor to the New Labour Party in this legislature.

See also

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