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MOVEMENT DEMOCRATIC PARTY

A party as the official results list it (MDP). Listed in 3 general elections, from 2009 to 2016.

General elections
3
First listed
2009
Latest
2016
Abbreviation
MDP

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

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. 0,0%2011
  4. 0,0%2016
  5. –2021: not listed2021
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
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot250,0%0,0 ppsince 20117 of 4 392 wards
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot790,0%0,0 ppsince 20111 of 213 municipalities
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot1 3070,0%–233 of 4 277 wards
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot8220,0%–7 of 234 municipalities
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot10 1630,1%–2 of 9 provinces
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot29 7470,2%–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.

Western Cape, 2016: by municipal area

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

All provinces

2016 Local Government Elections · the party’s latest election with verified results

Western Cape — 2016, municipal PR ballotVotes and share of valid votes per municipal area
Municipal areaVotesShareValid votes
Beaufort WestNot listed15 667
BergrivierNot listed16 233
BitouNot listed18 823
Breede ValleyNot listed45 794
Cape AgulhasNot listed13 078
CederbergNot listed15 273
City of Cape TownNot listed1 247 345
DrakensteinNot listed82 421
GeorgeNot listed59 776
HessequaNot listed21 552
KannalandNot listed10 202
KnysnaNot listed24 418
LaingsburgNot listed3 158
LangebergNot listed24 992
MatzikamaNot listed17 903
Mossel BayNot listed37 318
OudtshoornNot listed28 417
OverstrandNot listed35 647
Prince AlbertNot listed5 509
Saldanha BayNot listed34 758
StellenboschNot listed56 741
SwartlandNot listed28 607
SwellendamNot listed12 249
TheewaterskloofNot listed32 282
WitzenbergNot listed23 767

All parties in the 2016 Local Government 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
MOVEMENT DEMOCRATIC PARTYName on the results2009, 2011, 2016
MDPAbbreviation in the results reports2009

Manifestos

The party's own election manifestos, searchable by page

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No manifesto of MOVEMENT DEMOCRATIC PARTY 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: 2009, 2011 local, 2016 local.

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

This page holds the official record only. Mandate SA has not published editorial information about this party — its history, leaders, positions or record in office. When it does, that material will be marked as editorial, with its own sources, and kept apart from the official results.

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