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INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS

A party as the official results list it (ID). Listed in 3 general elections, from 2004 to 2009.

General elections
3
First listed
2004
Latest
2009
Abbreviation
ID

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. 1,7%2004
  4. 0,9%2009
  5. –2014: not listed2014
  6. –2019: not listed2019
  7. –2024: not listed2024
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
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot164 1711,0%−0,6 ppsince 20049 of 9 provinces
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot162 9150,9%−0,8 ppsince 2004national ballot
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot204 8462,1%–1 569 of 3 895 wards
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot217 7612,2%–96 of 237 municipalities
2004 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot245 2771,6%–9 of 9 provinces
2004 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot269 7651,7%–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

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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.

By province, 2009

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

2009 National and Provincial Elections · the party’s latest election with verified results

By province — 2009, national ballotVotes and share of valid votes per province, as named on polling day
ProvinceVotesShareValid votes
Eastern Cape10 5020,5%2 309 643
Free State1 7860,2%1 051 858
Gauteng25 0230,6%4 345 613
KwaZulu-Natal7 0860,2%3 527 234
Limpopo1 4230,1%1 547 636
Mpumalanga1 6190,1%1 343 253
North West4 8910,4%1 113 411
Northern Cape19 5844,7%414 502
Western Cape91 0014,5%2 027 579

All parties in the 2009 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
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATSName on the results2004, 2006, 2009
IDAbbreviation in the results reports2004, 2009

Manifestos

The party's own election manifestos, searchable by page

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No manifesto of INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS 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: 2004, 2006 local, 2009.

Record first created from IEC 2009 National and Provincial Elections — full results down to voting-district level (zipped CSV) · retrieved 8 October 2026 · approved 19 October 2026

About this party

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