2024 South African general election

2024 South African general election

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All 400 seats in the National Assembly 201 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	58.64% ( 7.41pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– ANC Cyril Ramaphosa 40.18 159 −71 DA John Steenhuisen 21.81 87 +3 MK Jacob Zuma[a] 14.58 58 New EFF Julius Malema 9.52 39 −5 IFP Velenkosini Hlabisa 3.85 17 +3 PA Gayton McKenzie 2.06 9 +9 VF+ Pieter Groenewald 1.36 6 −4 ActionSA Herman Mashaba 1.20 6 New ACDP Kenneth Meshoe 0.60 3 −1 UDM Bantu Holomisa 0.49 3 +1 RISE Songezo Zibi 0.42 2 New BOSA Mmusi Maimane 0.41 2 New ATM Vuyolwethu Zungula 0.40 2 0 Al Jama-ah Ganief Hendricks 0.24 2 +1 NCC Fadiel Adams 0.23 2 New PAC Mzwanele Nyhontso 0.23 1 0 UAT Wonder Mahlatsi 0.22 1 New Good Patricia de Lille 0.18 1 −1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by province President before President after Cyril Ramaphosa ANC TBD

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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 7th 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.

Support for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) significantly declined in this election; the ANC remained the largest party but lost the parliamentary majority that it has held since the inaugural post-apartheid election in 1994. The centrist Democratic Alliance came second. uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the newly-founded left-wing populist party led by former president Jacob Zuma, came in third place.^[3]

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