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NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTY

A party as the official results list it (NFP). Listed in 6 general elections, from 2011 to 2024.

General elections
6
First listed
2011
Latest
2024
Abbreviation
NFP

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. –2004: not listed2004
  4. –2009: not listed2009
  5. 1,6%2014
  6. 0,4%2019
  7. 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%.
  1. –2000: not listed2000
  2. –2006: not listed2006
  3. 2,4%2011
  4. 0,0%2016
  5. 0,5%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.
ElectionBallotVotesShareChangeOn the ballot
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot21 4800,1%−0,3 ppsince 20194 of 9 provinces
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialRegional ballot22 7460,1%–4 of 9 regions
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot19 3970,1%−0,2 ppsince 2019national ballot
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentDistrict council PR ballot52 5920,7%–14 of 44 districts
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot56 9600,5%+0,5 ppsince 20161 017 of 4 468 wards
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot61 0770,5%+0,5 ppsince 201659 of 213 municipalities
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot65 1950,4%−1,4 ppsince 20149 of 9 provinces
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot61 2200,4%−1,2 ppsince 2014national ballot
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot2 2030,0%−2,4 ppsince 20118 of 4 392 wards
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot3 0210,0%−2,4 ppsince 20111 of 213 municipalities
2014 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot318 8811,8%–9 of 9 provinces
2014 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot288 7421,6%–national ballot
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot326 5652,4%–1 192 of 4 277 wards
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot318 3522,4%–87 of 234 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

9 November 2016 – 25 February 2026 · IEC results

Wards contested
54
Seats awarded
1
Seats awarded, of wards contested1 of 54The IEC's seat award at each by-election — not a statement that the candidate holds the seat today.
Every by-election day

Latest seat awards

Newest first · as the IEC's results award them

  1. PHILANI GODFREY MAVUNDLA · Ward 7, Umvoti (2016 wards)21 August 2019

People

Members official rosters list for this party now, and its 2024 candidate lists — two different things

Ward councillors

The IEC lists 8 current ward councillors for this party in 3 municipalities, as at 9 October 2026. PR councillors are not yet in the record. See them by name

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
ListCandidates
National list20
Regional list · Free State3
Regional list · Gauteng11
Regional list · KwaZulu-Natal19
Regional list · Mpumalanga11
Provincial list · Free State6
Provincial list · Gauteng13
Provincial list · KwaZulu-Natal22
Provincial list · Mpumalanga6

By province, 2024

On the boundaries the election was held on

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

By province — 2024, national ballotVotes and share of valid votes per province, as named on polling day
ProvinceVotesShareValid votes
Eastern Cape1900,0%1 808 754
Free State1350,0%831 445
Gauteng1 2350,0%4 014 858
KwaZulu-Natal16 9910,5%3 517 028
Limpopo1000,0%1 430 184
Mpumalanga3850,0%1 154 199
North West1060,0%893 951
Northern Cape410,0%397 856
Western Cape2130,0%1 990 734
Votes cast abroad (listed as "Out of Country")10,0%39 084

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
NameAsElections
NATIONAL FREEDOM PARTYName on the results2011, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024
NFPAbbreviation in the results reports2014, 2019, 2024

Manifestos

The party's own election manifestos, searchable by page

Search this party’s policies
No manifesto of NATIONAL FREEDOM 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: 2011 local, 2014, 2016 local, 2019, 2021 local, 2024.

Record first created from IEC 2021 Local Government Elections — downloadable detailed results, Eastern Cape (CSV) · retrieved 7 October 2026 · approved 19 October 2026

About this party

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