National & ProvincialOfficial resultsIEC event 1

1999 National and Provincial Elections

Held on 2 June 1999. Results by municipal area, summed from the IEC's voting-district results. 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).

1999 National and Provincial Elections — National ballotShare of valid votes, national ballot; sums of 14 525 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)	Votes	Share	Share bar
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC	10 601 330	66,4%
DEMOCRATIC PARTYDP	1 527 337	9,6%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP	1 371 477	8,6%
NEW NATIONAL PARTY	1 098 215	6,9%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM	546 790	3,4%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP	228 975	1,4%
VRYHEIDSFRONT \ FREEDOM FRONT	127 217	0,8%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUCDP	125 280	0,8%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAPAC	113 125	0,7%
FEDERAL ALLIANCEFA	86 704	0,5%
MINORITY FRONTMF	48 277	0,3%
AFRIKANER EENHEIDSBEWEGINGAEB	46 292	0,3%
Others (4 together)	56 123	0,4%	Not drawn

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All 16 parties and contestantsShare of valid votes, national ballot; sums of 14 525 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC	10 601 330	66,4%
DEMOCRATIC PARTYDP	1 527 337	9,6%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP	1 371 477	8,6%
NEW NATIONAL PARTY	1 098 215	6,9%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM	546 790	3,4%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP	228 975	1,4%
VRYHEIDSFRONT \ FREEDOM FRONT	127 217	0,8%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUCDP	125 280	0,8%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAPAC	113 125	0,7%
FEDERAL ALLIANCEFA	86 704	0,5%
MINORITY FRONTMF	48 277	0,3%
AFRIKANER EENHEIDSBEWEGINGAEB	46 292	0,3%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATIONAZAPO	27 257	0,2%
ABOLITION OF INCOME TAX AND USURY PARTYAITUP	10 611	0,1%
THE GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE GREEN PARTY	9 193	0,1%
THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AZANIASOPA	9 062	0,1%

Key figures

National ballot · 1999

Valid votes: 15 977 142
Turnout: 89,4%
Votes cast: 16 228 462
Spoilt votes: 251 320
Registered voters: 18 162 063
Ballots: 1

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No map for this election

Boundary geometry for the areas of 1999 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 DP IFP NEW NATIONAL PARTY UDM ACDP VRYHEIDSFRONT \ FREEDOM FRONT UCDP

1999 National and Provincial Elections — National ballot — by provinceValid votes, turnout and party shares per province
Province	Valid votes	Turnout	IFP	Most votes
Eastern Cape2 614 voting districts summed	2 188 184	90,6%	0,3%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 73,9%
Free State1 068 voting districts summed	1 094 776	91,0%	0,5%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 81,0%
Gauteng1 836 voting districts summed	3 704 449	90,2%	3,5%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 68,1%
KwaZulu-Natal3 327 voting districts summed	2 958 963	87,5%	40,5%	INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY 40,5%
Limpopo1 934 voting districts summed	1 660 849	91,7%	0,3%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 89,3%
Mpumalanga878 voting districts summed	1 132 517	90,6%	1,4%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 85,3%
North West1 204 voting districts summed	1 307 532	87,7%	0,5%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 80,5%
Northern Cape356 voting districts summed	327 950	88,9%	0,4%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 64,4%
Western Cape1 308 voting districts summed	1 601 922	86,7%	0,2%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 42,6%

Coverage and comparability

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National ballotRecorded805 results
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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

No boundary geometry is held for this election's municipal areas: results are shown as tables, never drawn on today's boundaries.

Historical context

Before the first democratic local elections of December 2000, local government consisted of transitional councils (TLCs, TRCs and others). The IEC file groups voting districts by these councils; they are kept as listed, as areas of their own period.

Source issues

The IEC results portal's "full election results" button for 1999 links to the 1994 document (NPE 1994.pdf). The 1999 file was retrieved from the IEC's own upload folder (1999 NPE.zip, 2.9 MB, matching the size the portal states).
The file names provinces as they are known today (e.g. LIMPOPO, then called Northern Province); kept as the IEC lists them.
National ballotThe voting-district file and the IEC's results report (IEC National Elections 1999 — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF), results as at 17/12/2014 11:14:21 AM) differ in 8 of 200 figures, all in Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, North West, Northern Cape. Mpumalanga, Western Cape agree exactly. The figures shown are the voting-district file's, as published; the report most likely reflects later corrections. Not adjusted; to raise with the IEC.
Provincial ballotThe voting-district file and the IEC's results report (IEC Provincial Elections 1999 — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF), results as at 17/12/2014 01:43:34 PM) differ in 8 of 290 figures, all in Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, North West, Northern Cape. Mpumalanga, Western Cape agree exactly. The figures shown are the voting-district file's, as published; the report most likely reflects later corrections. Not adjusted; to raise with the IEC.

How it was read and checked

Election date: Polling day as proclaimed in the Government Gazette. The IEC results files do not state the date and the proclamation is not yet among this election's captured documents.
Results are stored for each municipal area (and for votes cast abroad) as sums of the IEC's voting-district rows; the number of voting districts summed is stored with each figure. Voting-district detail is in the official file (SHA-256 recorded) but not loaded (storage policy, DATABASE §8.2).

Sources

The official files behind these results

Official documents behind this recordFiles retrieved from the publisher, with their SHA-256 fingerprints
Document	Role	Retrieved	SHA-256
IEC 1999 National and Provincial Elections — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · 1999-NPE.zip · 2 876 KB	Results dataLoaded	8 October 2026	`985ac3bfba844851…`
IEC National Elections 1999 — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · rr-national.pdf · 20 KB · results as at 17/12/2014 11:14:21 AM · All provinces: party votes per province and in total	Results reportUsed to check totals	8 October 2026	`4d3640c46fb6e213…`
IEC Provincial Elections 1999 — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · rr-provincial.pdf · 25 KB · results as at 17/12/2014 01:43:34 PM · All provinces: party votes per province and in total	Results reportUsed to check totals	8 October 2026	`4592e4e8fa554145…`

Loaded from IEC 1999 National and Provincial Elections — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV) · retrieved 8 October 2026 · SHA-256 985ac3bfba84… · approved 19 October 2026 · Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za — 1999 National and Provincial Elections.