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AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS

A party as the official results list it (AIC). Listed in 8 general elections, from 2006 to 2024.

General elections
8
First listed
2006
Latest
2024
Abbreviation
AIC

Logo and colours

  • Party logos: Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)

Colours: no verified record. The IEC’s results dashboards draw parties in display colours of their own choosing; they are not the party’s statement and are not used.

Leadership

No verified record currently available. Party office is recorded only where the party or an official register states it, with the date it states.

Electoral history

Votes and share in every election this record appears in

National & Provincial elections · national ballotShare of valid votes nationally. A dash: not listed on that ballot. Scale 0–10%.
  1. –1994: not listed1994
  2. –1999: not listed1999
  3. –2004: not listed2004
  4. –2009: not listed2009
  5. 0,5%2014
  6. 0,3%2019
  7. 0,1%2024
Local Government elections · municipal PR ballotShare of all valid PR votes nationally, including municipalities where it was not listed. Scale 0–10%.
  1. –2000: not listed2000
  2. 0,1%2006
  3. 0,2%2011
  4. 1,0%2016
  5. 0,6%2021
Results in every election recordedShare of valid votes on all ballots of that type in the election, including where the party was not listed. Changes compare elections of the same type on the same ballot.
ElectionBallotVotesShareChangeOn the ballot
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot14 4960,1%−0,2 ppsince 20195 of 9 provinces
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialRegional ballot3 8440,0%–1 of 9 regions
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot19 9000,1%−0,2 ppsince 2019national ballot
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentDistrict council PR ballot31 2440,4%–10 of 44 districts
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot42 4080,4%−0,2 ppsince 2016825 of 4 468 wards
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot73 0360,6%−0,4 ppsince 201654 of 213 municipalities
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot48 4220,3%+0,2 ppsince 20149 of 9 provinces
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot48 1070,3%−0,3 ppsince 2014national ballot
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot88 5380,6%+0,5 ppsince 2011852 of 4 392 wards
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot145 8181,0%+0,8 ppsince 201139 of 213 municipalities
2014 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot23 2940,1%0,0 ppsince 20092 of 9 provinces
2014 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot97 6420,5%–national ballot
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot8 6050,1%0,0 ppsince 200653 of 4 277 wards
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot23 4140,2%+0,1 ppsince 20066 of 234 municipalities
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot17 3060,1%–1 of 9 provinces
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot9 5110,1%–22 of 3 895 wards
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot10 3450,1%–1 of 237 municipalities

Promises and actions

What the party promised and what it did, each with evidence and a review date — a separate, editorial layer beside the official record

Open the tracker

None published yet. Promises and party activities appear here only after editorial review — this is not a statement that the party made no promises or did nothing.

Ward by-elections

9 November 2016 – 15 October 2025 · IEC results

Wards contested
69
Seats awarded
0
Seats awarded, of wards contested0 of 69The IEC's seat award at each by-election — not a statement that the candidate holds the seat today.
Every by-election day

People

Members official rosters list for this party now, and its 2024 candidate lists — two different things

2024 candidate lists

Candidate lists, 2024 National and Provincial ElectionsThe IEC's final lists as at 10 April 2024 — who stood, not who was elected
ListCandidates
National list41
Regional list · Gauteng5
Provincial list · Eastern Cape21
Provincial list · Gauteng20
Provincial list · KwaZulu-Natal6
Provincial list · North West19
Provincial list · Western Cape20

By province, 2016

Areas as that election's official results list them — never mapped onto today's boundaries

2016 Local Government Elections · selected election

By province — 2016, municipal PR ballotVotes and share of valid votes per province, as named on polling day
ProvinceVotesShareValid votes
Eastern Cape30 7651,7%1 832 048
Free State9 1471,1%806 281
Gauteng42 8471,2%3 547 218
KwaZulu-Natal38 0371,2%3 233 572
LimpopoNot listed1 261 306
Mpumalanga2 9810,3%1 055 331
North West9 8411,1%886 997
Northern Cape7300,2%371 905
Western Cape11 4700,6%1 911 930

All parties in the 2016 Local Government Elections

Names as listed

Exactly as the official results and reports print them

Names and abbreviations as listedA different name in a later election would be a separate record unless a source links them
NameAsElections
AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESSName on the results2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024
AICAbbreviation in the results reports2009, 2014, 2019, 2024

Manifestos

The party's own election manifestos, searchable by page

Search this party’s policies
No manifesto of AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CONGRESS is on the record yet. Manifestos are added only from the party’s own published copy.

Declared donations

As the Electoral Commission's published declarations reports print them; above the disclosure threshold only

No declaration naming this party appears in the Commission’s published reports on the record (2021/22 onwards). Donations below the disclosure threshold are not published by law, so this is not a statement that the party received nothing.

Sources

Every figure on this page is read from the approved official results of each election; nothing is entered by hand. Each election’s page lists the Electoral Commission’s files it was loaded from, with their fingerprints and how the totals were checked: 2006 local, 2009, 2011 local, 2014, 2016 local, 2019, 2021 local, 2024.

Record first created from IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Eastern Cape (CSV) · retrieved 7 October 2026 · approved 19 October 2026

About this party

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