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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%.

–1994: not listed1994
–1999: not listed1999
–2004: not listed2004
–2009: not listed2009
–2014: not listed2014
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%.

–2000: not listed2000
–2006: not listed2006
–2011: not listed2011
0,0%2016
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.
Election	Ballot	Votes	Share	Change	On the ballot
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	6 126	0,0%	0,0 ppsince 2019	1 of 9 provinces
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Regional ballot	7 022	0,0%	–	1 of 9 regions
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	10 905	0,1%	0,0 ppsince 2019	national ballot
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	4 739	0,0%	0,0 ppsince 2016	111 of 4 468 wards
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	3 439	0,0%	0,0 ppsince 2016	1 of 213 municipalities
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	13 698	0,1%	–	1 of 9 provinces
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	10 660	0,1%	–	national ballot
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	6 810	0,0%	–	139 of 4 392 wards
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	4 893	0,0%	–	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
List	Candidates
National list	5
Regional list · KwaZulu-Natal	5
Provincial list · KwaZulu-Natal	5

Western Cape, 2024: by municipal area

On the boundaries the election was held on

All provinces

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

Western Cape — 2024, national ballotVotes and share of valid votes per municipal area
Municipal area	Votes	Share	Valid votes
Beaufort West	4	0,0%	14 584
Bergrivier	17	0,1%	17 882
Bitou	8	0,0%	20 360
Breede Valley	17	0,0%	45 082
Cape Agulhas	3	0,0%	13 106
Cederberg	3	0,0%	14 679
City of Cape Town	485	0,0%	1 285 512
Drakenstein	26	0,0%	85 032
George	108	0,2%	69 786
Hessequa	2	0,0%	22 246
Kannaland	2	0,0%	6 524
Knysna	7	0,0%	28 623
Laingsburg	3	0,1%	2 965
Langeberg	7	0,0%	24 304
Matzikama	8	0,0%	16 272
Mossel Bay	14	0,0%	47 458
Oudtshoorn	12	0,0%	25 727
Overstrand	8	0,0%	43 783
Prince Albert	1	0,0%	5 667
Saldanha Bay	4	0,0%	40 257
Stellenbosch	65	0,1%	60 664
Swartland	7	0,0%	31 967
Swellendam	0	0,0%	12 413
Theewaterskloof	10	0,0%	31 532
Witzenberg	8	0,0%	24 309

Open a municipality for its wards and their results. 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
DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL CONGRESS	Name on the results	2016, 2019, 2021, 2024
DLC	Abbreviation in the results reports	2019, 2024

Manifestos

The party's own election manifestos, searchable by page

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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

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