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2009 National and Provincial Elections

Held on 22 April 2009. 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).

2009 National and Provincial Elections — National ballotShare of valid votes, national ballot; sums of 19 734 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC11 650 74865,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIEDA2 945 82916,7%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLECOPE1 311 0277,4%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP804 2604,5%
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATSID162 9150,9%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM149 6800,8%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUSVF Plus146 7960,8%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP142 6580,8%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUCDP66 0860,4%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAPAC48 5300,3%
MINORITY FRONTMF43 4740,2%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATIONAZAPO38 2450,2%
Others (14 together)170 4811,0%
Show all 26 parties and contestants
All 26 parties and contestantsShare of valid votes, national ballot; sums of 19 734 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC11 650 74865,9%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIEDA2 945 82916,7%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLECOPE1 311 0277,4%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP804 2604,5%
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATSID162 9150,9%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM149 6800,8%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUSVF Plus146 7960,8%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP142 6580,8%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYUCDP66 0860,4%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAPAC48 5300,3%
MINORITY FRONTMF43 4740,2%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATIONAZAPO38 2450,2%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTIONAPC35 8670,2%
MOVEMENT DEMOCRATIC PARTYMDP29 7470,2%
AL JAMA-AH25 9470,1%
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCECDA11 6380,1%
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONNADECO10 8300,1%
NEW VISION PARTYNVP9 2960,1%
UNITED INDEPENDENT FRONTUIF8 8720,1%
GREAT KONGRESS OF SOUTH AFRICAGKSA8 2710,0%
SOUTH AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSSADECO6 0350,0%
KEEP IT STRAIGHT AND SIMPLEKISS5 4400,0%
PAN AFRICANIST MOVEMENTPAM5 4260,0%
ALLIANCE OF FREE DEMOCRATSAFD5 1780,0%
WOMEN FORWARDWF5 0870,0%
A PARTY2 8470,0%

Key figures

National ballot · 2009

Valid votes
17 680 729
Turnout
77,3%
Areas without a registered-voter figure (votes abroad) are left out
Votes cast
17 919 966
Spoilt votes
239 237
Registered voters
23 181 997
1 area(s) without a figure
Ballots
1

Compare with another national & Provincial election

2004 and 20092009 and 2014

Only elections of the same type are compared.

No map for this election

Boundary geometry for the areas of 2009 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:ANCDACOPEIFPIDUDMVF PlusACDP
2009 National and Provincial Elections — National ballot — by provinceValid votes, turnout and party shares per province
ProvinceValid votesTurnoutMDPMost votes
Eastern Cape4 483 voting districts summed2 309 643–0,1%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 69,7%
Free State1 264 voting districts summed1 051 85877,0%0,2%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 71,9%
Gauteng2 296 voting districts summed4 345 61379,1%0,1%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 64,8%
KwaZulu-Natal4 187 voting districts summed3 527 23479,9%0,2%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 64,0%
Limpopo2 456 voting districts summed1 547 63669,6%0,1%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 85,3%
Mpumalanga1 377 voting districts summed1 343 25380,4%0,2%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 85,8%
North West1 503 voting districts summed1 113 41172,6%0,4%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 73,8%
Northern Cape626 voting districts summed414 50276,0%0,2%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 61,1%
Western Cape1 542 voting districts summed2 027 57977,8%0,1%DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIE 48,8%

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 ballotPartial266 results
  • Provincial ballotRecorded257 results

Registered voters are not stated for some or all results.

Boundaries and comparisons

Areas of the 2006 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 2006 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

  • National ballotVotes cast abroad are listed per province of registration ("<Province> - Out of Country"); each is kept as a reporting area within its province.
  • This file uses later municipal codes (KZN…, LIM…) for municipalities the IEC's 2006 local-election file lists as KZ… and NP…. Each file's codes are kept as listed; the two are not merged.

How it was read and checked

  • Election date: Polling day as the IEC results portal names the event ("22 APR 2009 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 2009 National Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF), results as at 25/09/2013 02:07:24 PM): all 300 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 2009 Provincial Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF), results as at 25/09/2013 02:05:48 PM): all 420 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 2009 National and Provincial Elections — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · 2009-NPE.zip · 5 421 KBResults dataLoaded8 October 202675c6cf58647e7e89…
IEC 2009 National Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · rr-national.pdf · 26 KB · results as at 25/09/2013 02:07:24 PM · All provinces: party votes per province and in totalResults reportUsed to check totals8 October 20261ba00eac7441084a…
IEC 2009 Provincial Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · rr-provincial.pdf · 32 KB · results as at 25/09/2013 02:05:48 PM · All provinces: party votes per province and in totalResults reportUsed to check totals8 October 20266ec7d96f3d4c8bf0…

Turnout 77,3%