Electoral record
Parties
Every party in the official results of South Africa’s elections since 1994, under the name the results list it with — and how it did in each election it stood in. A name the official results list differently is a separate record: the sources do not say whether two names are one party.
- CONCERNED DRAKENSTEIN RESIDENTSListed in: 2021 local Government
- CONGREGATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNITYListed in: 2021 local Government
- CONGRESS MOVEMENT OF THE COLOURED PEOPLE IN SOUTH AFRICAListed in: 2006 local Government
- CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLEListed in: 2009 national & Provincial, 2011 local Government, 2014 national & Provincial, 2016 local Government, 2019 national & Provincial, 2021 local Government, 2024 national & Provincial
- CONSERVATIVES IN ACTIONListed in: 2024 national & Provincial
- CREDIBLE ALTERNATIVE 1ST MOVEMENTListed in: 2021 local Government
- D'ALMEDIA CIVIC ASSOCIATIONListed in: 2016 local Government
- DABALORIVHUWA PATRIOTIC FRONTListed in: 1999 national & Provincial, 2000 local Government, 2006 local Government
- DAGGA PARTYListed in: 2011 local Government
- DAVEYTON COMMUNITY PEACE COMMITTEEListed in: 2000 local Government, 2006 local Government
- DBOKKEListed in:
- DECENT POLITICAL PARTYListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEFENDERS OF AFRICAN DIGNITYListed in:
- DEFENDERS OF THE PEOPLEListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCEListed in: 2014 national & Provincial, 2016 local Government, 2019 national & Provincial, 2021 local Government, 2024 national & Provincial
- DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE/DEMOKRATIESE ALLIANSIEListed in: 2000 local Government, 2004 national & Provincial, 2006 local Government, 2009 national & Provincial, 2011 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC ARTISTS PARTYListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION OF WITZENBERG INDEPENDENCEListed in: 2011 local Government, 2016 local Government, 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC CHRISTIAN PARTYListed in: 2011 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY MOVEMENTListed in: 2016 local Government, 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC EQUALITY EMPOWERMENT PARTYListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM ALLIANCEListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC INDEPENDENT PARTYListed in: 2016 local Government, 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTYListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC LIBERAL CONGRESSListed in: 2016 local Government, 2019 national & Provincial, 2021 local Government, 2024 national & Provincial
- DEMOCRATIC NEW CIVIC ASSOCIATIONListed in: 2016 local Government, 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC PARTYListed in: 1994 national & Provincial, 1999 national & Provincial
- DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S ALTERNATIVEListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S CONGRESSListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATIC UNION PLUSListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEMOCRATS FOR CHANGEListed in: 2011 local Government
- DENNILTON RESIDENTS ASSOCIATIONListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEVELOPMENT OF JOBS IN VRYHEIDListed in: 2021 local Government
- DEVOTED CITIZENS OF MSUNDUZIListed in: 2021 local Government
- DIE FORUMListed in: 2016 local Government
- DIE MAQUASSI HILLS/RANTE GEMEENSKAPSVERENIGINGListed in: 2000 local Government, 2006 local Government
- DIENSLEWERINGS PARTYListed in: 2016 local Government, 2019 national & Provincial, 2021 local Government
- DIKGATLONG INDEPENDED FORUMListed in: 2021 local Government
- DIKGATLONG SERVICE DELIVERY FORUMListed in: 2021 local Government
- DIKWANKWETLA PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICAListed in: 1994 national & Provincial, 2000 local Government, 2004 national & Provincial, 2006 local Government, 2009 national & Provincial, 2011 local Government, 2016 local Government, 2021 local Government
- DISABILITY AND OLDER PERSON POLITICAL PARTYListed in: 2021 local Government
- DISPLACEES RATE-PAYERS ASSOCIATIONListed in: 2000 local Government, 2006 local Government, 2011 local Government
- DISRUPT PARTYListed in: 2021 local Government
- DPListed in: 1994 national & Provincial
- DPSAListed in: 1994 national & Provincial
- DRAKENSBERG CONCERNED RESIDENTSListed in: 2021 local Government
- DUBE CIVIC ORGANISATIONListed in: 2000 local Government
- EAST RAND FORUM/OOSRAND FORUMListed in: 2000 local Government
- EASTERN CAPE MOVEMENTListed in: 2021 local Government
How party records are kept
Each record is a party exactly as the Electoral Commission’s results list it, with the abbreviations its reports print. Votes and shares are read from the results themselves, never typed in. Where a source states that a party changed its name, merged or split, the records are linked with that source; nothing is linked because two names look alike. In 1994 the national results list parties by abbreviation only, so those lines are records of their own.
