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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)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC10 591 06469,2%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIEDA1 846 54012,1%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP1 119 5307,3%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM349 5042,3%
NUWE NASIONALE PARTY/NEW NATIONAL PARTYNNP275 1851,8%
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATSID245 2771,6%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP242 9241,6%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUCDP143 5150,9%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUSVF Plus139 2820,9%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAPAC110 2050,7%
MINORITY FRONTMF71 5400,5%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATIONAZAPO40 3210,3%
Others (21 together)128 2550,8%
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)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC10 591 06469,2%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIEDA1 846 54012,1%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP1 119 5307,3%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM349 5042,3%
NUWE NASIONALE PARTY/NEW NATIONAL PARTYNNP275 1851,8%
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATSID245 2771,6%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP242 9241,6%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUCDP143 5150,9%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUSVF Plus139 2820,9%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAPAC110 2050,7%
MINORITY FRONTMF71 5400,5%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATIONAZAPO40 3210,3%
NASIONALE AKSIENA13 4580,1%
THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AZANIASOPA12 9940,1%
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYCDP12 7530,1%
AFRICA MUSLIM PARTYAMP11 0190,1%
NEW LABOUR PARTY10 5260,1%
ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY AND PROSPERITYADP9 9330,1%
DIKWANKWETLA PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICADPSA9 8060,1%
XIMOKO PARTYXP9 5870,1%
PEACE AND JUSTICE CONGRESSP.J.C.6 4860,0%
SINDAWONYE PROGRESSIVE PARTYSPP5 9250,0%
IZWI LETHU PARTYILP4 8580,0%
PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT PARTYPDP3 9430,0%
THE GREEN PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICAGPGP3 3170,0%
ROYAL LOYAL PROGRESSRLP3 1410,0%
THE CAPE PEOPLES CONGRESSCPC2 3520,0%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM MOVEMENTEFM1 8620,0%
PRO-DEATH PENALTY PARTY1 8250,0%
INDEPENDENT AFRICAN MOVEMENTIAM1 5460,0%
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS PARTYBCP1 2360,0%
MODERATE INDEPENDENT PARTYMIP9530,0%
UNIVERSAL PARTYU.P.7350,0%

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

1999 and 20042004 and 2009

Only elections of the same type are compared.

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:ANCDAIFPUDMNNPIDACDPUCDP
2004 National and Provincial Elections — Provincial ballot — by provinceEach province's own legislature ballot
ProvinceValid votesTurnoutMFMost votes
Eastern Cape4 114 voting districts summed2 231 54379,3%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 79,3%
Free State1 063 voting districts summed1 011 60677,8%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 81,8%
Gauteng1 956 voting districts summed3 408 30874,2%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 68,4%
KwaZulu-Natal3 556 voting districts summed2 741 26572,8%2,6%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 47,0%
Limpopo2 170 voting districts summed1 614 51474,8%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 89,2%
Mpumalanga964 voting districts summed1 111 69278,3%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 86,3%
North West1 445 voting districts summed1 298 56375,6%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 80,7%
Northern Cape347 voting districts summed318 70274,7%–AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 68,8%
Western Cape1 348 voting districts summed1 566 94971,3%–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
DocumentRoleRetrievedSHA-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 KBResults dataLoaded8 October 2026c6a5cb39f3c4316a…
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 totalResults reportUsed to check totals8 October 20262c7570132b3b2c19…
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 totalResults reportUsed to check totals8 October 2026336f57f0c864f11d…

Turnout 75,0%