National & ProvincialOfficial resultsIEC event 699

2019 National and Provincial Elections

Held on 8 May 2019. 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).

2019 National and Provincial Elections — National ballotShare of valid votes, national ballot; sums of 22 924 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)	Votes	Share	Share bar
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC	10 026 475	57,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDA	3 622 531	20,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERSEFF	1 882 480	10,8%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP	588 839	3,4%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUSVF Plus	414 864	2,4%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP	146 262	0,8%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM	78 030	0,4%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENTATM	76 830	0,4%
GOOD	70 408	0,4%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTYNFP	61 220	0,4%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESSAIC	48 107	0,3%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLECOPE	47 461	0,3%
Others (36 together)	373 872	2,1%	Not drawn

Show all 48 parties and contestants

All 48 parties and contestantsShare of valid votes, national ballot; sums of 22 924 voting-district results
Party or contestant (as listed)	Votes	Share
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESSANC	10 026 475	57,5%
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEDA	3 622 531	20,8%
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERSEFF	1 882 480	10,8%
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTYIFP	588 839	3,4%
VRYHEIDSFRONT PLUSVF Plus	414 864	2,4%
AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTYACDP	146 262	0,8%
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTUDM	78 030	0,4%
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENTATM	76 830	0,4%
GOOD	70 408	0,4%
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTYNFP	61 220	0,4%
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESSAIC	48 107	0,3%
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLECOPE	47 461	0,3%
PAN AFRICANIST CONGRESS OF AZANIAPAC	32 677	0,2%
AL JAMA-AHALJAMA	31 468	0,2%
AFRICAN SECURITY CONGRESSASC	26 262	0,2%
SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS PARTYSRWP	24 439	0,1%
BLACK FIRST LAND FIRSTBLF	19 796	0,1%
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S CONVENTIONAPC	19 593	0,1%
AFRIKAN ALLIANCE OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATSAASD	18 834	0,1%
CAPITALIST PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICAZACP	15 915	0,1%
ALLIANCE FOR TRANSFORMATION FOR ALLATA	14 266	0,1%
AGANG SOUTH AFRICAAGANGSA	13 856	0,1%
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATIONAZAPO	12 823	0,1%
INDEPENDENT CIVIC ORGANISATION OF SOUTH AFRICAICOSA	12 386	0,1%
MINORITY FRONTMF	11 961	0,1%
DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL CONGRESSDLC	10 660	0,1%
BETTER RESIDENTS ASSOCIATIONBRA	9 179	0,1%
FORUM 4 SERVICE DELIVERYF4SD	7 564	0,0%
FRONT NASIONAAL/FRONT NATIONALFN	7 144	0,0%
LAND PARTYLAND	7 074	0,0%
AFRICAN COVENANTACO	7 019	0,0%
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCEPA	6 660	0,0%
AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC CHANGEADEC	6 499	0,0%
ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION FORUMECOFORUM	6 321	0,0%
WOMEN FORWARDWF	6 108	0,0%
CHRISTIAN POLITICAL MOVEMENTCPM	4 980	0,0%
AFRICAN CONTENT MOVEMENTACM	4 841	0,0%
INTERNATIONAL REVELATION CONGRESSIRC	4 247	0,0%
NATIONAL PEOPLE'S FRONTNAPF	4 019	0,0%
AFRICAN RENAISSANCE UNITYARU	3 860	0,0%
AFRICAN CONGRESS OF DEMOCRATSA.C.D	3 768	0,0%
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS OF TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIESSANCOTA	3 714	0,0%
COMPATRIOTS OF SOUTH AFRICACSA	3 406	0,0%
PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTPRM	2 844	0,0%
POWER OF AFRICANS UNITYPAU	2 685	0,0%
FREE DEMOCRATSFREEDEMS	2 580	0,0%
SOUTH AFRICAN MAINTANANCE AND ESTATE BENEFICIARIES ASSOCIATISAMEBA	2 445	0,0%
NATIONAL PEOPLES AMBASSADORSNPA	1 979	0,0%

Key figures

National ballot · 2019

Valid votes: 17 437 379
Turnout: 66,1%
Votes cast: 17 672 851
Spoilt votes: 235 472
Registered voters: 26 756 058
Ballots: 1

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No map for this election

Boundary geometry for the areas of 2019 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 EFF IFP VF Plus ACDP UDM ATM

2019 National and Provincial Elections — National ballot — by provinceValid votes, turnout and party shares per province
Province	Valid votes	Turnout	ANC	Most votes
Eastern Cape4 790 voting districts summed	2 020 527	61,0%	69,3%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 69,3%
Free State1 529 voting districts summed	907 212	62,9%	62,9%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 62,9%
Gauteng2 771 voting districts summed	4 537 402	71,8%	53,2%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 53,2%
KwaZulu-Natal4 885 voting districts summed	3 652 577	67,3%	55,5%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 55,5%
Limpopo3 157 voting districts summed	1 510 568	58,7%	77,0%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 77,0%
Mpumalanga1 772 voting districts summed	1 271 979	66,1%	72,2%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 72,2%
North West1 733 voting districts summed	994 220	59,4%	63,7%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 63,7%
Northern Cape707 voting districts summed	410 842	66,6%	58,2%	AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 58,2%
Western Cape1 579 voting districts summed	2 112 170	68,2%	31,2%	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE 52,4%
Votes cast abroad (listed as "Out of Country")1 voting district summed	19 882	280,7%	10,8%	DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE 74,4%

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 ballotRecorded214 results
Provincial ballotRecorded213 results

Boundaries and comparisons

Areas of the 2016 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 2016 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 ballotIn the national-ballot CSV, 912 rows have unquoted commas inside the voting-station name, which shifts their columns. They are read by anchoring on the numeric columns; every repaired row is counted in the ingestion record and the totals reconcile with the IEC's results report.
National ballotVotes cast abroad appear under two labels in the file, "Out of Country" and "Out of Country Voting". Both are kept as listed, as separate reporting areas.
National ballotThe voting-district file and the IEC's results report (IEC 2019 National Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF), results as at 10/12/2019 02:43:19 PM) differ in 2 of 572 figures, all in Eastern Cape. Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Northern Cape, Western Cape, votes cast abroad agree exactly. The figures shown are the voting-district file's, as published; the report most likely reflects later corrections. Not adjusted; to raise with the IEC.
Provincial ballotThe voting-district file and the IEC's results report (IEC 2019 Provincial Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF), results as at 13/05/2019 04:22:34 PM) differ in 4 of 740 figures, all in Gauteng. Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Northern Cape, Western Cape agree exactly. The figures shown are the voting-district file's, as published; the report most likely reflects later corrections. Not adjusted; to raise with the IEC.

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).

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 2019 National Election — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · National.zip · 5 694 KB	Results dataLoaded	8 October 2026	`8d3e8a3c40829732…`
IEC 2019 Provincial Election — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · Provincial.zip · 3 938 KB	Results dataLoaded	8 October 2026	`bf75dc4682b7f8b2…`
IEC 2019 National Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · rr-national.pdf · 45 KB · results as at 10/12/2019 02:43:19 PM · All provinces: party votes per province and in total	Results reportUsed to check totals	8 October 2026	`56c17208991b8423…`
IEC 2019 Provincial Election — Detailed Results, all provinces (PDF)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · rr-provincial.pdf · 52 KB · results as at 13/05/2019 04:22:34 PM · All provinces: party votes per province and in total	Results reportUsed to check totals	8 October 2026	`fde0fa82d2bbecb1…`
IEC 2019 National Election — Seat Calculation (PDF)Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) · seat-national.pdf · 109 KB	Seat calculationReference	8 October 2026	`529992dc04cb99bb…`

Loaded from IEC 2019 National Election — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV) · retrieved 8 October 2026 · SHA-256 8d3e8a3c4082… · approved 19 October 2026 · Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za — 2019 National and Provincial Elections.
Loaded from IEC 2019 Provincial Election — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV) · retrieved 8 October 2026 · SHA-256 bf75dc4682b7… · approved 19 October 2026 · Results: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za — 2019 National and Provincial Elections.