National & ProvincialOfficial resultsIEC event 61

1994 National and Provincial Elections

Held on 27 April 1994. Party totals by province, as published (no voting-district or municipal detail exists). No boundary geometry is held for this election's areas, so its results are shown as tables.

National ballot: results

Elects the National Assembly from national party lists (from 2024, 200 of its 400 seats; before 2024, all 400 seats).

1994 National and Provincial Elections — National ballotShare of valid votes, national ballot
Party or contestant (as listed)	Votes	Share	Seats	Share bar
ANC	12 237 655	62,6%	252
NP	3 983 690	20,4%	82
IFP	2 058 294	10,5%	43
VV-FF	424 555	2,2%	9
DP	338 426	1,7%	7
PAC	243 478	1,2%	5
ACDP	88 104	0,5%	2
AMP	34 466	0,2%	–
AMCP	27 690	0,1%	–
DPSA	19 451	0,1%	–
FP	17 663	0,1%	–
MF	13 433	0,1%	–
Others (7 together)	46 593	0,2%	0	Not drawn

Show all 19 parties and contestants

All 19 parties and contestantsShare of valid votes, national ballot
Party or contestant (as listed)	Votes	Share	Seats
ANC	12 237 655	62,6%	252
NP	3 983 690	20,4%	82
IFP	2 058 294	10,5%	43
VV-FF	424 555	2,2%	9
DP	338 426	1,7%	7
PAC	243 478	1,2%	5
ACDP	88 104	0,5%	2
AMP	34 466	0,2%	–
AMCP	27 690	0,1%	–
DPSA	19 451	0,1%	–
FP	17 663	0,1%	–
MF	13 433	0,1%	–
SOCCER	10 575	0,1%	–
ADM	9 886	0,1%	–
WRPP	6 434	0,0%	–
XPP	6 320	0,0%	–
KISS	5 916	0,0%	–
WLP	4 169	0,0%	–
LUSAP	3 293	0,0%	–

Key figures

National ballot · 1994

Valid votes: 19 533 498
Turnout: Not stated
Votes cast: Not stated
Spoilt votes: Not stated
Registered voters: Not stated
Ballots: 1

Compare with another national & Provincial election

1994 and 1999

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No map for this election

Boundary geometry for the areas of 1994 is not held. Areas change between elections, so these results are never drawn on today's boundaries; they are listed by area below.

By province

Provinces as named on polling day

Show share of:ANC NP IFP VV-FF DP PAC ACDP AMP

1994 National and Provincial Elections — National ballot — by provinceValid votes, turnout and party shares per province
Province	Valid votes	Turnout	VV-FF	Most votes
Eastern Cape	2 857 710	–	0,7%	ANC 84,4%
Eastern Transvaal	1 309 993	–	3,5%	ANC 81,9%
KwaZulu-Natal	3 750 606	–	0,5%	IFP 48,6%
North West	1 588 255	–	3,1%	ANC 83,5%
Northern Cape	404 579	–	4,3%	ANC 49,8%
Northern Transvaal	1 919 790	–	1,5%	ANC 92,7%
Orange Free State	1 368 251	–	3,7%	ANC 77,4%
PWV (Pretoria–Witwatersrand–Vereeniging)	4 208 301	–	3,7%	ANC 59,1%
Western Cape	2 126 013	–	2,0%	NP 56,2%

Coverage and comparability

What this election's record holds, the delimitation its areas sit on, and which elections it may be compared with

The whole record

By ballot

National ballotPartial10 results · seats
Provincial ballotPartial9 results · seats

Votes cast and spoilt are not stated by the source for some or all results. Registered voters are not stated for some or all results.

Boundaries and comparisons

Areas of the pre-2000 structures (no delimitation on record); no boundary geometry is held, so areas are listed by name and code and never drawn on another delimitation's map.

Nationally and by province this election compares with every other national & Provincial election. By municipality: no other election is on the same delimitation, so municipal results are listed per election and never side by side. Wards are compared only within one delimitation.

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About this record

Coverage, limitations, source issues and how the figures were checked

What the record holds

Available: national-ballot votes for each party by province and in total, National Assembly seats, and each provincial legislature's votes and seats by party. Not available: registered voters, votes cast, spoilt votes, turnout, and any result below province level. None of these is estimated.
Provincial boundaries have changed since 1994; results are not drawn on today's provincial map.

Historical context

The 1994 elections were run by the Independent Electoral Commission established for that election, not by today's Electoral Commission. The current IEC states that this document is the only election data it has for 1994.
The document notes that after the 1994 elections four provinces were renamed: Eastern Transvaal became Mpumalanga, Northern Transvaal became Northern Province (later Limpopo), Orange Free State became Free State and PWV (Pretoria–Witwatersrand–Vereeniging) became Gauteng. The 1994 names are shown with these results.

Source issues

National ballotThe national results table lists parties by abbreviation only (e.g. PAC, VV-FF, ANC). They are kept as printed and are not matched to the full names on the provincial pages, which the document does not pair with the abbreviations.

How it was read and checked

Election date: Polling day as the IEC results portal names the event ("27 APR 1994 NATIONAL ELECTION").
Read from the document's tables: the national table's nine provinces add up to its printed totals for every party (19 parties, 19 533 498 valid votes), and the seats add up to the printed 400 nationally and to each legislature's printed total.

Sources

The official files behind these results

Official documents behind this recordFiles retrieved from the publisher, with their SHA-256 fingerprints
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1994 National and Provincial Elections (IEC publication of the results of the 1994 elections, 4 pages, PDF)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · NPE-1994.pdf · 201 KB · Pages 1–4: national results (page 1), provincial results (pages 2–4)	Historical publicationLoaded	8 October 2026	`c0727d28361c1b90…`

Loaded from 1994 National and Provincial Elections (IEC publication of the results of the 1994 elections, 4 pages, PDF) · retrieved 8 October 2026 · SHA-256 c0727d28361c… · approved 19 October 2026 · Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), publication of the 1994 National and Provincial Elections results (elections.org.za).