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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%.

–1994: not listed1994
–1999: not listed1999
1,7%2004
0,9%2009
–2014: not listed2014
–2019: not listed2019
–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.
Election	Ballot	Votes	Share	Change	On the ballot
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	164 171	1,0%	−0,6 ppsince 2004	9 of 9 provinces
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	162 915	0,9%	−0,8 ppsince 2004	national ballot
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	204 846	2,1%	–	1 569 of 3 895 wards
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	217 761	2,2%	–	96 of 237 municipalities
2004 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	245 277	1,6%	–	9 of 9 provinces
2004 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	269 765	1,7%	–	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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Western Cape, 2009: by municipal area

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

All provinces

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

Western Cape — 2009, national ballotVotes and share of valid votes per municipal area
Municipal area	Votes	Share	Valid votes
Beaufort West [Beaufort West]	176	1,2%	14 255
Bergrivier [Velddrif]	1 810	10,9%	16 590
Bitou [Greater Plettenberg Bay]	749	3,9%	19 352
Breede River/Winelands [Robertson]	3 880	15,4%	25 187
Breede Valley [Worcester]	3 094	6,2%	49 879
Cape Agulhas [Bredasdorp]	772	6,2%	12 449
Cederberg [Citrusdal]	1 914	14,0%	13 678
City of Cape Town [Cape Town]	37 245	2,8%	1 348 762
Drakenstein [Paarl]	8 090	9,5%	84 964
George [George]	5 503	8,8%	62 885
Hessequa [Heidelberg/Riversdale]	843	4,3%	19 455
Kannaland [Ladismith]	925	11,2%	8 288
Knysna [Knysna]	1 081	4,0%	26 921
Laingsburg [Laingsburg]	422	15,4%	2 735
Matzikama [Vredendal]	4 732	28,3%	16 727
Mossel Bay [Mossel Bay]	992	2,6%	38 259
Oudtshoorn [Oudtshoorn]	4 479	15,2%	29 480
Overstrand [Greater Hermanus]	512	1,5%	34 585
Prince Albert [Prins Albert]	74	1,6%	4 547
Saldanha Bay [West Coast Peninsula]	2 638	8,1%	32 503
Stellenbosch [Stellenbosch]	1 985	3,5%	56 908
Swartland [Malmesbury]	1 580	5,6%	28 302
Swellendam [Barrydale/Swellendam ]	1 513	15,0%	10 086
Theewaterskloof [Caledon]	2 825	8,8%	31 982
WCDMA01 [WEST COAST DC]	346	23,1%	1 500
WCDMA02 [BREDE RIVER DC]	172	9,8%	1 760
WCDMA03 [OVERBERG DC]	4	11,1%	36
WCDMA04 [SOUTH CAPE DC]	165	4,0%	4 166
WCDMA05 [CENTRAL KAROO DC]	7	0,3%	2 467
Witzenberg [Ceres]	2 427	9,4%	25 711
Votes cast abroad (Western Cape)	46	1,5%	3 160

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
Name	As	Elections
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS	Name on the results	2004, 2006, 2009
ID	Abbreviation in the results reports	2004, 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

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