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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.

National ballot: results

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

2004 National and Provincial Elections — National ballotShare of valid votes, national ballot; sums of 16 972 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC10 880 91569,7%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIEDA1 931 20112,4%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP1 088 6647,0%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM355 7172,3%
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATSID269 7651,7%
NUWE NASIONALE PARTY/NEW NATIONAL PARTYNNP257 8241,7%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP250 2721,6%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUSVF Plus139 4650,9%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUCDP117 7920,8%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAPAC113 5120,7%
MINORITY FRONTMF55 2670,4%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATIONAZAPO39 1160,3%
Others (9 together)113 1610,7%
Show all 21 parties and contestants
All 21 parties and contestantsShare of valid votes, national ballot; sums of 16 972 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC10 880 91569,7%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIEDA1 931 20112,4%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP1 088 6647,0%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM355 7172,3%
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATSID269 7651,7%
NUWE NASIONALE PARTY/NEW NATIONAL PARTYNNP257 8241,7%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP250 2721,6%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUSVF Plus139 4650,9%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUCDP117 7920,8%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAPAC113 5120,7%
MINORITY FRONTMF55 2670,4%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATIONAZAPO39 1160,3%
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYCDP17 6190,1%
NASIONALE AKSIENA15 8040,1%
PEACE AND JUSTICE CONGRESSP.J.C.15 1870,1%
THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AZANIASOPA14 8530,1%
NEW LABOUR PARTY13 3180,1%
UNITED FRONTU.F.11 8890,1%
THE EMPLOYMENT MOVEMENT OF SOUTH AFRICAEMSA10 4460,1%
THE ORGANISATION PARTYT.O.P.7 5310,0%
KEEP IT STRAIGHT AND SIMPLEKISS6 5140,0%

Key figures

National ballot · 2004

Valid votes
15 612 671
Turnout
76,7%
Votes cast
15 863 558
Spoilt votes
250 887
Registered voters
20 674 923
Ballots
1

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:ANCDAIFPUDMIDNNPACDPVF Plus
2004 National and Provincial Elections — National ballot — by provinceValid votes, turnout and party shares per province
ProvinceValid votesTurnoutNNPMost votes
Eastern Cape4 115 voting districts summed2 277 39181,1%0,6%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 79,3%
Free State1 064 voting districts summed1 022 04478,9%0,8%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 82,0%
Gauteng1 957 voting districts summed3 504 36376,4%0,7%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 68,7%
KwaZulu-Natal3 557 voting districts summed2 765 20373,5%0,6%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 47,5%
Limpopo2 171 voting districts summed1 657 59677,1%0,5%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 89,7%
Mpumalanga965 voting districts summed1 134 09280,3%0,4%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 86,3%
North West1 446 voting districts summed1 323 76177,4%0,4%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 81,8%
Northern Cape348 voting districts summed323 20176,0%7,2%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 68,8%
Western Cape1 349 voting districts summed1 605 02073,0%9,4%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 46,3%

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 76,7%