National & ProvincialOfficial resultsIEC event 45

2004 National and Provincial Elections

Held on 14 April 2004. 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.

Provincial ballot: results

Elects each province's legislature.

2004 National and Provincial Elections — Provincial ballotShare of valid votes, all 9 provincial ballots together; sums of 16 963 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)	Votes	Share	Share bar
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC	10 591 064	69,2%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIEDA	1 846 540	12,1%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP	1 119 530	7,3%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM	349 504	2,3%
NUWE NASIONALE PARTY/NEW NATIONAL PARTYNNP	275 185	1,8%
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATSID	245 277	1,6%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP	242 924	1,6%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUCDP	143 515	0,9%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUSVF Plus	139 282	0,9%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAPAC	110 205	0,7%
MINORITY FRONTMF	71 540	0,5%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATIONAZAPO	40 321	0,3%
Others (21 together)	128 255	0,8%	Not drawn

Show all 33 parties and contestants

All 33 parties and contestantsShare of valid votes, all 9 provincial ballots together; sums of 16 963 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC	10 591 064	69,2%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIEDA	1 846 540	12,1%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP	1 119 530	7,3%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM	349 504	2,3%
NUWE NASIONALE PARTY/NEW NATIONAL PARTYNNP	275 185	1,8%
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATSID	245 277	1,6%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP	242 924	1,6%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUCDP	143 515	0,9%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUSVF Plus	139 282	0,9%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAPAC	110 205	0,7%
MINORITY FRONTMF	71 540	0,5%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATIONAZAPO	40 321	0,3%
NASIONALE AKSIENA	13 458	0,1%
THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AZANIASOPA	12 994	0,1%
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYCDP	12 753	0,1%
AFRICA MUSLIM PARTYAMP	11 019	0,1%
NEW LABOUR PARTY	10 526	0,1%
ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY AND PROSPERITYADP	9 933	0,1%
DIKWANKWETLA PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICADPSA	9 806	0,1%
XIMOKO PARTYXP	9 587	0,1%
PEACE AND JUSTICE CONGRESSP.J.C.	6 486	0,0%
SINDAWONYE PROGRESSIVE PARTYSPP	5 925	0,0%
IZWI LETHU PARTYILP	4 858	0,0%
PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT PARTYPDP	3 943	0,0%
THE GREEN PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICAGPGP	3 317	0,0%
ROYAL LOYAL PROGRESSRLP	3 141	0,0%
THE CAPE PEOPLES CONGRESSCPC	2 352	0,0%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM MOVEMENTEFM	1 862	0,0%
PRO-DEATH PENALTY PARTY	1 825	0,0%
INDEPENDENT AFRICAN MOVEMENTIAM	1 546	0,0%
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS PARTYBCP	1 236	0,0%
MODERATE INDEPENDENT PARTYMIP	953	0,0%
UNIVERSAL PARTYU.P.	735	0,0%

Key figures

Provincial ballot · 2004

Valid votes: 15 303 142
Turnout: 75,0%
Votes cast: 15 516 223
Spoilt votes: 213 081
Registered voters: 20 674 923
Ballots: 9

Compare with another national & Provincial election

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No map for this election

Boundary geometry for the areas of 2004 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 DA IFP UDM NNP ID ACDP UCDP

2004 National and Provincial Elections — Provincial ballot — by provinceEach province's own legislature ballot
Province	Valid votes	Turnout	U.P.	Most votes
Eastern Cape4 114 voting districts summed	2 231 543	79,3%	–	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 79,3%
Free State1 063 voting districts summed	1 011 606	77,8%	–	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 81,8%
Gauteng1 956 voting districts summed	3 408 308	74,2%	–	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 68,4%
KwaZulu-Natal3 556 voting districts summed	2 741 265	72,8%	–	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 47,0%
Limpopo2 170 voting districts summed	1 614 514	74,8%	–	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 89,2%
Mpumalanga964 voting districts summed	1 111 692	78,3%	–	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 86,3%
North West1 445 voting districts summed	1 298 563	75,6%	–	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 80,7%
Northern Cape347 voting districts summed	318 702	74,7%	–	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 68,8%
Western Cape1 348 voting districts summed	1 566 949	71,3%	0,0%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 45,3%

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 ballotRecorded279 results
Provincial ballotRecorded270 results

Boundaries and comparisons

Areas of the 2000 municipal delimitation; 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

Municipal areas are the 2000 municipalities, as the IEC file lists them. No boundary geometry is held for this election's municipal areas: results are shown as tables, never drawn on today's boundaries.

Source issues

Cross-boundary municipalities (codes CBLC…) are listed under each province they straddled; each part is kept as its own reporting unit, named as a part. In each province one voting district is listed with the municipality "NULL"; it is kept as listed ("Unassigned (listed as NULL)").

How it was read and checked

Election date: Polling day as the IEC results portal names the event ("14 APR 2004 NATIONAL ELECTION").
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).
National ballotReconciled with the IEC's results report (IEC 2004 National Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF), results as at 25/09/2013 02:02:36 PM): all 250 figures compared (each party's votes per province and in total; valid, spoilt and cast votes and registered voters) agree exactly.
Provincial ballotReconciled with the IEC's results report (IEC 2004 Provincial Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF), results as at 25/09/2013 01:59:52 PM): all 370 figures compared (each party's votes per province and in total; valid, spoilt and cast votes and registered voters) agree exactly.

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 2004 National and Provincial Elections — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · 2004-NPE.zip · 3 919 KB	Results dataLoaded	8 October 2026	`c6a5cb39f3c4316a…`
IEC 2004 National Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · rr-national.pdf · 23 KB · results as at 25/09/2013 02:02:36 PM · All provinces: party votes per province and in total	Results reportUsed to check totals	8 October 2026	`2c7570132b3b2c19…`
IEC 2004 Provincial Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · rr-provincial.pdf · 29 KB · results as at 25/09/2013 01:59:52 PM · All provinces: party votes per province and in total	Results reportUsed to check totals	8 October 2026	`336f57f0c864f11d…`

Loaded from IEC 2004 National and Provincial Elections — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV) · retrieved 8 October 2026 · SHA-256 c6a5cb39f3c4… · approved 19 October 2026 · Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za — 2004 National and Provincial Elections.