Official results

UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT

A party as the official results list it (UDM). Listed in 11 general elections, from 1999 to 2024.

General elections: 11
First listed: 1999
Latest: 2024
Abbreviation: UDM

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
3,4%1999
2,3%2004
0,8%2009
1,0%2014
0,4%2019
0,5%2024

Local Government elections · municipal PR ballotShare of all valid PR votes nationally, including municipalities where it was not listed. Scale 0–10%.

2,7%2000
1,3%2006
0,6%2011
0,6%2016
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.
Election	Ballot	Votes	Share	Change	On the ballot
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	87 574	0,6%	+0,1 ppsince 2019	8 of 9 provinces
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Regional ballot	85 764	0,5%	–	9 of 9 regions
2024 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	78 446	0,5%	0,0 ppsince 2019	national ballot
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	District council PR ballot	46 508	0,7%	–	16 of 44 districts
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	50 907	0,4%	−0,1 ppsince 2016	1 769 of 4 468 wards
2021 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	60 301	0,5%	−0,1 ppsince 2016	62 of 213 municipalities
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	75 940	0,5%	−0,6 ppsince 2014	9 of 9 provinces
2019 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	78 030	0,4%	−0,6 ppsince 2014	national ballot
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	76 336	0,5%	−0,1 ppsince 2011	1 079 of 4 392 wards
2016 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	91 275	0,6%	0,0 ppsince 2011	57 of 213 municipalities
2014 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	188 326	1,1%	+0,2 ppsince 2009	9 of 9 provinces
2014 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	184 636	1,0%	+0,2 ppsince 2009	national ballot
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	83 728	0,6%	−0,4 ppsince 2006	1 461 of 4 277 wards
2011 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	84 623	0,6%	−0,7 ppsince 2006	69 of 234 municipalities
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	149 994	0,9%	−1,4 ppsince 2004	9 of 9 provinces
2009 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	149 680	0,8%	−1,4 ppsince 2004	national ballot
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	100 352	1,0%	−1,4 ppsince 2000	1 089 of 3 895 wards
2006 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	129 047	1,3%	−1,4 ppsince 2000	80 of 237 municipalities
2004 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	349 504	2,3%	−1,1 ppsince 1999	9 of 9 provinces
2004 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	355 717	2,3%	−1,1 ppsince 1999	national ballot
2000 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Ward ballot	205 251	2,4%	–	1 067 of 3 754 wards
2000 Local Government ElectionsLocal Government	Municipal PR ballot	234 198	2,7%	–	96 of 237 municipalities
1999 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	Provincial ballot	535 930	3,4%	–	9 of 9 provinces
1999 National and Provincial ElectionsNational & Provincial	National ballot	546 790	3,4%	–	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.

Ward by-elections

9 November 2016 – 17 June 2026 · IEC results

Wards contested: 68
Seats awarded: 0

Seats awarded, of wards contested0 of 68The IEC's seat award at each by-election — not a statement that the candidate holds the seat today.

Every by-election day

People

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

Listed as current members

Member of the National Assembly3 listed as current members, as at 8 October 2026
Name	Party (as listed)	List
Bantubonke Harrington Holomisa	UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTListed as “UDM”	National
Nqabayomzi Lawrence Saziso Kwankwa	UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTListed as “UDM”	National
Christobel Thandiwe Nontenja	UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTListed as “UDM”	Regional · Eastern Cape

Permanent Delegate to the National Council of Provinces — Eastern Cape1 listed as a current member, as at 8 October 2026
Name	Party (as listed)	List
Mandla Matthewis Peter	UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTListed as “UDM”	–

Member of the Provincial Legislature — Eastern Cape3 listed as current members, as at 8 October 2026
Name	Party (as listed)	Role (as listed)
Lennox Bogen Gaehler	UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	Leader of the UDM
Mkululi Mcotsho	UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	–
Noncedo Zinti	UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	–

As each body’s roster lists them, under this party’s name or label, on the date it was read. Rosters of some provincial legislatures are not yet in the record. All members listed for this party

Ward councillors

The IEC lists 1 current ward councillor for this party in 1 municipality, 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
List	Candidates
National list	199
Regional list · Eastern Cape	13
Regional list · Free State	5
Regional list · Gauteng	9
Regional list · KwaZulu-Natal	5
Regional list · Limpopo	8
Regional list · Mpumalanga	3
Regional list · North West	5
Regional list · Northern Cape	3
Regional list · Western Cape	5
Provincial list · Eastern Cape	54
Provincial list · Free State	29
Provincial list · Gauteng	38
Provincial list · KwaZulu-Natal	19
Provincial list · Limpopo	31
Provincial list · Mpumalanga	33
Provincial list · North West	31
Provincial list · Western Cape	31

By province, 1999

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

1999 National and Provincial Elections · selected election

By province — 1999, national ballotVotes and share of valid votes per province, as named on polling day
Province	Votes	Share	Valid votes
Eastern Cape	281 748	12,9%	2 188 184
Free State	18 073	1,7%	1 094 776
Gauteng	79 565	2,1%	3 704 449
KwaZulu-Natal	38 080	1,3%	2 958 963
Limpopo	42 643	2,6%	1 660 849
Mpumalanga	15 869	1,4%	1 132 517
North West	18 574	1,4%	1 307 532
Northern Cape	3 092	0,9%	327 950
Western Cape	49 146	3,1%	1 601 922

All parties in the 1999 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
UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT	Name on the results	1999, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024
UDM	Abbreviation in the results reports	1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024

Manifestos

The party's own election manifestos, searchable by page

Search this party’s policies

No manifesto of UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT 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

All declarations

UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT declared R 2 250 000 in 4 donations over 2023/24–2023/24. Donors declared 1 of these from their side; those are shown but not added.

Donations declared by UNITED DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTLatest first; rands as published
Period	Donor, as published	Received	Amount	Type
2023/24 · Q4	EXXARORESO	12 September 2023	R 500 000	Monetary
2023/24 · Q4	MARY SLACK	2 November 2023	R 1 000 000	Monetary
2023/24 · Q4	THE DOUW STEYN FAMILY TRUST	22 March 2024	R 250 000	Monetary
2023/24 · Q4	WE ARE THE PEOPLE	27 March 2024	R 500 000	Monetary

Donors other parties also declared

By the same published name, a name match rather than proof of one person or company. Each opens the donor’s declarations to every party.

WE ARE THE PEOPLE · also RISE MZANSI
MARY SLACK · also BUILD ONE SOUTH AFRICA
THE DOUW STEYN FAMILY TRUST · also BUILD ONE SOUTH AFRICA

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, 2009, 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

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