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South Africa general election 2024

Polling day . Counted by Electoral Commission of South Africa. Times are Johannesburg time; hover for UTC.

Final: 2 Jun 2024

Final result declared Johannesburg time, published by the authority: parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/OISD/Reports/Electoral_Commission/2025/november/13-11-2025/Electoral_Commission_National_and_Provincial_Elections_Report_2024_140725_1.pdf. The window was 31 May – 5 Jun 2024.

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Electoral Commission of South Africa
Results page
results.elections.org.za/home/NPEPublicReports/1334/National%20Ballot/Results%20Report/National.pdf
results.elections.org.za/home/NPEPublicReports/1334/National%20Ballot/Seat%20Calculation/National.pdf

Count stages National Assembly, 400 seats

30 May1 Jun3 Jun5 Jun
Final resultexpected on the live page now
31 May – 5 JunFinal result: Fri 31 May, 21:00 → Wed 5 Jun, 23:59, announced. Published Sun 2 Jun, 23:59.
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Stage windows and their sources 1 stage, each cited
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    FINAL ACT: the Commission's declaration of the result under Electoral Act s.57, at the national Results Operations Centre (Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand) on Sunday 2 June 2024, day 4 after polling. The IEC's own record is its 2024 National and Provincial Elections Report: 'The Electoral Commission hosted the results announcement on 2 June 2024 at the Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand' and 'completed the results process within four days (on 2 June 2024)'; 'As at 15h00 on 2 June 2024, the Electoral Commission had considered all Section 55 objections.' The report gives the date but no time of the declaration, so observedAt is the end of 2 June 2024 local (23:59:59 SAST = 21:59:59 UTC), stated as such; the time of the ceremony was not taken from press. No IEC-hosted media release of the declaration was found (elections.org.za news paths returned 403/404 on 3 Oct 2026). EXPECTED: s.57(2): declare 'within seven days after the voting day, but not (a) sooner than 21:00 of the second day after the voting day; or (b) before all objections ... have been dealt with' - for polling Wed 29 May 2024, between 21:00 SAST Fri 31 May (19:00 UTC) and Wed 5 Jun 2024; expectedBy is the end of 5 Jun SAST. The Commission extended the objection deadline to 18:00 on 1 June (IEC report). Polls: 07:00-21:00 SAST (IEC report), UTC+2 with no DST, so 19:00 UTC; stations could stay open for voters already in the queue. The 400 seats are one allocation from the national ballot (200 national PR seats) and the nine regional ballots (200 regional seats), per the IEC Seat Calculation Report. Electoral Court challenges (ATM, ARA, MK) did not suspend the result and no court must confirm it, so there is no court-validation stage. COUNTS NOT COPIED: the IEC's Copyright notice (https://www.elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice, read 3 Oct 2026): 'The use of any material on this site for commercial purposes is a breach of copyright. Material may be retrieved and displayed, printed or reproduced in unaltered form only for personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation. All other rights are reserved.' Its Disclaimer (https://www.elections.org.za/pw/Disclaimer) cl. 2.1-2.2: content may be used 'for personal, educational and/or non-commercial purposes only' and 'shall not be used or exploited by Users for any commercial and non-private purposes without the prior written consent of IEC'. Under the licence rule (non-commercial-only terms), no results are given here. The Government Gazette of 6 June 2024 lists the elected representatives (IEC report p.92); not read, and not expected to carry vote counts.
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Results sources 9 pages, 2 can answer a results question
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results.elections.org.za/home/NPEPublicReports/1334/National%20Ballot/Results%20Report/National.pdfresults-finalrace resultsyesnot checked yet
results.elections.org.za/home/NPEPublicReports/1334/National%20Ballot/Seat%20Calculation/National.pdfresults-finalrace resultsyesnot checked yet
results.elections.org.za/home/Downloads/NPE-Resultssee-alsoresults indexno (results section without an election code)not checked yet
results.elections.org.za/dashboards/npe/see-alsootherno (no election or results marker)not checked yet
parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/OISD/Reports/Electoral_Commission/2025/november/13-11-2025/Electoral_Commission_National_and_Provincial_Elections_Report_2024_140725_1.pdftimetableotherno (election page without a results marker)not checked yet
gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/a73-98.pdftimetableotherno (election page without a results marker)not checked yet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_South_African_general_electionsee-alsootherno (election page without a results marker)not checked yet
results.elections.org.zaresults-indexresults indexno (results host, but its root lists many elections)not checked yet
elections.org.zaauthority-homeemb homeno (site root: cannot answer a results question)not checked yet

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Provenance: researcher agent 2026-10-03: IEC Electoral Commission 2024 National and Provincial Elections Report (RP176/2024, parliament.gov.za); IEC results portal results.elections.org.za (Detailed Results and Seat Calculation reports, 2024 National Ballot); IEC Copyright notice and Disclaimer (elections.org.za); Electoral Act 73 of 1998 ss.55, 57 (gov.za) (CC BY 4.0 (Election Index); vote counts not copied (IEC terms allow personal, non-commercial use only)). Last verified 2026-10-03.

Questions and answers

When is the South Africa general election 2024?
Polling day is 2024-05-29 (officially set).
When will the final result of the National Assembly race be official?
Expected between 2024-05-31T19:00:00Z and 2024-06-05T21:59:59Z (UTC), confidence announced. FINAL ACT: the Commission's declaration of the result under Electoral Act s.57, at the national Results Operations Centre (Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand) on Sunday 2 June 2024, day 4 after polling. The IEC's own record is its 2024 National and Provincial Elections Report: 'The Electoral Commission hosted the results announcement on 2 June 2024 at the Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand' and 'completed the results process within four days (on 2 June 2024)'; 'As at 15h00 on 2 June 2024, the Electoral Commission had considered all Section 55 objections.' The report gives the date but no time of the declaration, so observedAt is the end of 2 June 2024 local (23:59:59 SAST = 21:59:59 UTC), stated as such; the time of the ceremony was not taken from press. No IEC-hosted media release of the declaration was found (elections.org.za news paths returned 403/404 on 3 Oct 2026). EXPECTED: s.57(2): declare 'within seven days after the voting day, but not (a) sooner than 21:00 of the second day after the voting day; or (b) before all objections ... have been dealt with' - for polling Wed 29 May 2024, between 21:00 SAST Fri 31 May (19:00 UTC) and Wed 5 Jun 2024; expectedBy is the end of 5 Jun SAST. The Commission extended the objection deadline to 18:00 on 1 June (IEC report). Polls: 07:00-21:00 SAST (IEC report), UTC+2 with no DST, so 19:00 UTC; stations could stay open for voters already in the queue. The 400 seats are one allocation from the national ballot (200 national PR seats) and the nine regional ballots (200 regional seats), per the IEC Seat Calculation Report. Electoral Court challenges (ATM, ARA, MK) did not suspend the result and no court must confirm it, so there is no court-validation stage. COUNTS NOT COPIED: the IEC's Copyright notice (https://www.elections.org.za/pw/Copyright-Notice, read 3 Oct 2026): 'The use of any material on this site for commercial purposes is a breach of copyright. Material may be retrieved and displayed, printed or reproduced in unaltered form only for personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation. All other rights are reserved.' Its Disclaimer (https://www.elections.org.za/pw/Disclaimer) cl. 2.1-2.2: content may be used 'for personal, educational and/or non-commercial purposes only' and 'shall not be used or exploited by Users for any commercial and non-private purposes without the prior written consent of IEC'. Under the licence rule (non-commercial-only terms), no results are given here. The Government Gazette of 6 June 2024 lists the elected representatives (IEC report p.92); not read, and not expected to carry vote counts.
Where are the official National Assembly results?
https://results.elections.org.za/home/NPEPublicReports/1334/National%20Ballot/Results%20Report/National.pdf, https://results.elections.org.za/home/NPEPublicReports/1334/National%20Ballot/Seat%20Calculation/National.pdf