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2014 National and Provincial Elections

Held on 7 May 2014. 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).

2014 National and Provincial Elections — National ballot
Party or contestant (as listed)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS11 436 92162,1%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4 091 58422,2%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1 169 2596,4%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY441 8542,4%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY288 7421,6%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT184 6361,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS165 7150,9%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE123 2350,7%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY104 0390,6%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS97 6420,5%
AGANG SOUTH AFRICA52 3500,3%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA37 7840,2%
Others (17 together)208 7361,1%
Show all 29 parties and contestants
All 29 parties and contestants
Party or contestant (as listed)VotesShare
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS11 436 92162,1%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE4 091 58422,2%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS1 169 2596,4%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY441 8542,4%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY288 7421,6%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT184 6361,0%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUS165 7150,9%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE123 2350,7%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY104 0390,6%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS97 6420,5%
AGANG SOUTH AFRICA52 3500,3%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIA37 7840,2%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTION30 6760,2%
AL JAMA-AH25 9760,1%
MINORITY FRONT22 5890,1%
UNITED CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY21 7440,1%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION20 4210,1%
BUSHBUCKRIDGE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION15 2710,1%
INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICA14 4720,1%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE13 2630,1%
WORKERS AND SOCIALIST PARTY8 3310,0%
UBUNTU PARTY8 2340,0%
KINGDOM GOVERNANCE MOVEMENT6 4080,0%
FRONT NASIONAAL/FRONT NATIONAL5 1380,0%
KEEP IT STRAIGHT AND SIMPLE4 2940,0%
PAN AFRICANIST MOVEMENT3 8150,0%
FIRST NATION LIBERATION ALLIANCE3 2970,0%
UNITED CONGRESS3 1360,0%
PEOPLES ALLIANCE1 6710,0%

Key figures

Valid votes
18 402 497
Turnout
73,5%
Votes cast
18 654 771
Spoilt votes
252 274
Registered voters
25 388 082
Ballots
1

Compare with another national & Provincial election

No map for this election

Boundary geometry for the areas of 2014 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

2014 National and Provincial Elections — National ballot — by province
ProvinceValid votesTurnoutNFPMost votes
Eastern Cape2 243 49770,3%0,2%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 70,8%
Free State1 034 33772,5%0,1%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 69,7%
Gauteng4 592 21976,5%0,5%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 54,9%
KwaZulu-Natal3 874 83376,9%6,4%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 65,3%
Limpopo1 523 16963,3%0,0%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 79,0%
Mpumalanga1 385 40775,7%0,7%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 78,8%
North West1 126 69168,8%0,1%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 67,8%
Northern Cape436 06573,8%0,0%AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 63,9%
Western Cape2 168 14774,4%0,0%DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE 57,3%
Votes cast abroad (listed as "OUT OF COUNTRY")18 132271,7%0,0%DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE 84,4%

Coverage and comparability

What this election's record holds, the delimitation its areas sit on, and which elections it may be compared with

By ballot

  • National ballot
  • Provincial ballot

Boundaries and comparisons

Areas of the 2011 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.

About this record

Coverage, limitations, source issues and how the figures were checked

What the record holds

  • Municipal areas are the 2011 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.

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).
  • Reconciled with the IEC's results report (IEC 2014 National Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF), results as at 12/05/2014 12:24:49 PM): all 363 figures compared (each party's votes per province, abroad and in total; valid, spoilt and cast votes and registered voters) agree exactly.
  • Reconciled with the IEC's results report (IEC 2014 Provincial Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF), results as at 10/05/2014 02:30:31 AM): all 460 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 record
DocumentRoleRetrievedSHA-256
IEC 2014 National and Provincial Elections — complete voting-district-level results data (zipped CSV)Results data8 October 20265a70e4d56646e752…
IEC 2014 National Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF)Results report8 October 2026b81ea331e3b9b408…
IEC 2014 Provincial Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF)Results report8 October 2026ec980bd8846f56d9…

Turnout 73,5%