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DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL CONGRESS

A party as the official results list it (DLC). Listed in 4 general elections, from 2016 to 2024.

General elections
4
First listed
2016
Latest
2024
Abbreviation
DLC

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. –2014: not listed2014
  6. 0,1%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. –2006: not listed2006
  3. –2011: not listed2011
  4. 0,0%2016
  5. 0,0%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 ballot6 1260,0%0,0 ppsince 20191 of 9 provinces
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialRegional ballot7 0220,0%–1 of 9 regions
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot10 9050,1%0,0 ppsince 2019national ballot
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot4 7390,0%0,0 ppsince 2016111 of 4 468 wards
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot3 4390,0%0,0 ppsince 20161 of 213 municipalities
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot13 6980,1%–1 of 9 provinces
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot10 6600,1%–national ballot
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot6 8100,0%–139 of 4 392 wards
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot4 8930,0%–2 of 213 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

3 October 2018 – 7 August 2019 · IEC results

Wards contested
2
Seats awarded
0
Seats awarded, of wards contested0 of 2The 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 list5
Regional list · KwaZulu-Natal5
Provincial list · KwaZulu-Natal5

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
ProvinceVotesShareValid votes
Eastern Cape1 4510,1%1 808 754
Free State6110,1%831 445
Gauteng2 0340,1%4 014 858
KwaZulu-Natal4 2330,1%3 517 028
Limpopo5510,0%1 430 184
Mpumalanga4000,0%1 154 199
North West6460,1%893 951
Northern Cape1400,0%397 856
Western Cape8290,0%1 990 734
Votes cast abroad (listed as "Out of Country")100,0%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
NameAsElections
DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL CONGRESSName on the results2016, 2019, 2021, 2024
DLCAbbreviation in the results reports2019, 2024

Manifestos

The party's own election manifestos, searchable by page

Search this party’s policies
No manifesto of DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL 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: 2016 local, 2019, 2021 local, 2024.

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

About this party

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