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AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION

A party as the official results list it (AZAPO). Listed in 11 general elections, from 1999 to 2024.

General elections: 11
First listed: 1999
Latest: 2024
Abbreviation: AZAPO

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%.

–1994: not listed1994
0,2%1999
0,3%2004
0,2%2009
0,1%2014
0,1%2019
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%.

0,3%2000
0,3%2006
0,2%2011
0,1%2016
0,1%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.
Election	Ballot	Votes	Share	Change	On the ballot
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	8 761	0,1%	0,0 ppsince 2019	2 of 9 provinces
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Regional ballot	18 761	0,1%	–	9 of 9 regions
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	19 048	0,1%	0,0 ppsince 2019	national ballot
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	District council PR ballot	4 171	0,1%	–	8 of 44 districts
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	6 720	0,1%	0,0 ppsince 2016	855 of 4 468 wards
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	6 853	0,1%	0,0 ppsince 2016	32 of 213 municipalities
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	13 675	0,1%	−0,1 ppsince 2014	9 of 9 provinces
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	12 823	0,1%	0,0 ppsince 2014	national ballot
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	9 808	0,1%	−0,1 ppsince 2011	761 of 4 392 wards
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	10 122	0,1%	−0,1 ppsince 2011	29 of 213 municipalities
2014 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	23 861	0,1%	0,0 ppsince 2009	9 of 9 provinces
2014 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	20 421	0,1%	−0,1 ppsince 2009	national ballot
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	24 331	0,2%	−0,1 ppsince 2006	933 of 4 277 wards
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	26 300	0,2%	−0,1 ppsince 2006	43 of 234 municipalities
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	28 535	0,2%	−0,1 ppsince 2004	7 of 9 provinces
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	38 245	0,2%	0,0 ppsince 2004	national ballot
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	25 773	0,3%	0,0 ppsince 2000	889 of 3 895 wards
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	30 321	0,3%	0,0 ppsince 2000	44 of 237 municipalities
2004 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	40 321	0,3%	+0,1 ppsince 1999	9 of 9 provinces
2004 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	39 116	0,3%	+0,1 ppsince 1999	national ballot
2000 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	18 573	0,2%	–	313 of 3 754 wards
2000 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	25 865	0,3%	–	26 of 237 municipalities
1999 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	22 329	0,1%	–	5 of 9 provinces
1999 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	27 257	0,2%	–	national ballot

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

13 February 2019 – 6 August 2025 · IEC results

Wards contested: 12
Seats awarded: 0

Seats awarded, of wards contested0 of 12The 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
List	Candidates
National list	145
Regional list · Eastern Cape	18
Regional list · Free State	9
Regional list · Gauteng	23
Regional list · KwaZulu-Natal	20
Regional list · Limpopo	19
Regional list · Mpumalanga	11
Regional list · North West	12
Regional list · Northern Cape	4
Regional list · Western Cape	17
Provincial list · Eastern Cape	26
Provincial list · Gauteng	16

By province, 2024

On the boundaries the election was held on

2024 National and Provincial Elections · the party’s latest election with verified results

By province — 2024, national ballotVotes and share of valid votes per province, as named on polling day
Province	Votes	Share	Valid votes
Eastern Cape	4 366	0,2%	1 808 754
Free State	1 315	0,2%	831 445
Gauteng	4 433	0,1%	4 014 858
KwaZulu-Natal	2 105	0,1%	3 517 028
Limpopo	2 849	0,2%	1 430 184
Mpumalanga	1 343	0,1%	1 154 199
North West	1 177	0,1%	893 951
Northern Cape	521	0,1%	397 856
Western Cape	915	0,0%	1 990 734
Votes cast abroad (listed as "Out of Country")	24	0,1%	39 084

All parties in the 2024 National and Provincial 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
Name	As	Elections
AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION	Name on the results	1999, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024
AZAPO	Abbreviation in the results reports	1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024

Manifestos

The party's own election manifestos, searchable by page

Search this party’s policies

No manifesto of AZANIAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION 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: 1999, 2000 local, 2004, 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

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