2024 South African general election

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2024 South African general election

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All 400 seats in the National Assembly 201 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	27,672,264
Turnout	58.62% ( 7.43pp)
Reporting	34.49% as of 18:24 GMT
Leader Cyril Ramaphosa John Steenhuisen Julius Malema Party ANC DA EFF Alliance Tripartite Alliance Multi-Party Charter Last election 57.50%, 230 seats 20.77%, 84 seats 10.80%, 44 seats   Leader Jacob Zuma Gayton McKenzie Pieter Groenewald Party MK PA VF+ Alliance Multi-Party Charter Last election New party 0.04%, 0 seats 2.38%, 10 seats
Incumbent President Cyril Ramaphosa ANC

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General elections were held in South Africa on 29 May 2024 to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces.^[1][2] This was the seventh general election held under the conditions of universal adult suffrage since the end of the apartheid era in 1994. The new National Council of Provinces (NCOP) will be elected at the first sitting of each provincial legislature.

Since the inaugural post-apartheid election in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC) has continuously achieved a majority in both chambers of the South African Parliament: the National Assembly (lower house) and the National Council of Provinces (upper house).

The date of the elections was set by the incumbent president, Cyril Ramaphosa, and was required to be within 90 days of the end of the term of the current Parliament.^[3] It was announced on 20 February 2024 that the election would be held on 29 May 2024.^[4] On 30 May, South African news station eNCA projected that the ruling ANC would lose its majority in the national parliament for the first time in South Africa's democratic history, while also still remaining the largest party, after getting 45% of the vote.^[5]