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THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AZANIA

A party as the official results list it (SOPA). Listed in 6 general elections, from 1999 to 2016.

General elections
6
First listed
1999
Latest
2016
Abbreviation
SOPA

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. 0,1%1999
  3. 0,1%2004
  4. –2009: not listed2009
  5. –2014: not listed2014
  6. –2019: not listed2019
  7. –2024: not listed2024
Local Government elections · municipal PR ballotShare of all valid PR votes nationally, including municipalities where it was not listed. Scale 0–10%.
  1. 0,0%2000
  2. 0,0%2006
  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 ballot2810,0%0,0 ppsince 20112 of 4 392 wards
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot3430,0%0,0 ppsince 20111 of 213 municipalities
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot3630,0%0,0 ppsince 20067 of 4 277 wards
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot5590,0%0,0 ppsince 20063 of 234 municipalities
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot8270,0%0,0 ppsince 200040 of 3 895 wards
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot2 3520,0%0,0 ppsince 20005 of 237 municipalities
2004 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot12 9940,1%0,0 ppsince 19994 of 9 provinces
2004 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot14 8530,1%0,0 ppsince 1999national ballot
2000 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentWard ballot7630,0%–11 of 3 754 wards
2000 Local Government ElectionsLocal GovernmentMunicipal PR ballot1 6770,0%–3 of 237 municipalities
1999 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialProvincial ballot6 6740,0%–3 of 9 provinces
1999 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & ProvincialNational ballot9 0620,1%–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, 2016

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

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

By province — 2016, municipal PR ballotVotes and share of valid votes per province, as named on polling day
ProvinceVotesShareValid votes
Eastern CapeNot listed1 832 048
Free StateNot listed806 281
Gauteng3430,0%3 547 218
KwaZulu-NatalNot listed3 233 572
LimpopoNot listed1 261 306
MpumalangaNot listed1 055 331
North WestNot listed886 997
Northern CapeNot listed371 905
Western CapeNot listed1 911 930

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
THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AZANIAName on the results1999, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2011, 2016
SOPAAbbreviation in the results reports1999, 2004

Manifestos

The party's own election manifestos, searchable by page

Search this party’s policies
No manifesto of THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF AZANIA 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: 1999, 2000 local, 2004, 2006 local, 2011 local, 2016 local.

Record first created from IEC 2004 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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