Official results

KEEP IT STRAIGHT AND SIMPLE

A party as the official results list it (KISS). Listed in 3 general elections, from 2004 to 2014.

General elections: 3
First listed: 2004
Latest: 2014
Abbreviation: KISS

Also listed by abbreviation

The official 1994 results list parties on the national ballot by abbreviation only. A line with the same abbreviation is a separate record: KISS (listed by abbreviation only). Its votes are not added to this party’s results.

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
0,0%2004
0,0%2009
0,0%2014
–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
2014 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	4 294	0,0%	0,0 ppsince 2009	national ballot
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	5 440	0,0%	0,0 ppsince 2004	national ballot
2004 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	6 514	0,0%	–	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.

By province, 2014

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

2014 National and Provincial Elections · the party’s latest election with verified results

By province — 2014, national ballotVotes and share of valid votes per province, as named on polling day
Province	Votes	Share	Valid votes
Eastern Cape	384	0,0%	2 243 497
Free State	203	0,0%	1 034 337
Gauteng	1 184	0,0%	4 592 219
KwaZulu-Natal	1 404	0,0%	3 874 833
Limpopo	201	0,0%	1 523 169
Mpumalanga	201	0,0%	1 385 407
North West	226	0,0%	1 126 691
Northern Cape	65	0,0%	436 065
Western Cape	421	0,0%	2 168 147
Votes cast abroad (listed as "OUT OF COUNTRY")	5	0,0%	18 132

All parties in the 2014 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
KEEP IT STRAIGHT AND SIMPLE	Name on the results	2004, 2009, 2014
KISS	Abbreviation in the results reports	2004, 2009, 2014

Manifestos

The party's own election manifestos, searchable by page

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No manifesto of KEEP IT STRAIGHT AND SIMPLE 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, 2009, 2014.

Record first created from IEC 2014 National and Provincial Elections — complete voting-district-level results data (zipped CSV) · retrieved 8 October 2026 · approved 19 October 2026

About this party

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