South Africa general election 2024: National Assembly

Final count

Turnout 58.6%: 16,290,760 ballots from 27,782,081 registered voters.

National Assembly 2024, national ballot. Votes are from the IEC's 'Results Reports - Detailed Results' for the 2024 NATIONAL ELECTION, Ballot: National Ballot, All Provinces (https://results.elections.org.za/home/NPEPublicReports/1334/National%20Ballot/Results%20Report/National.pdf, Excel version National.xls at the same path), stamped 'Results as at: 21/06/2024 01:51:28 PM': this is the IEC's later published final national-ballot report, so publishedAt is that file's date, not the declaration of 2 Jun 2024 (the final-result stage). The file post-dates the declaration and may include corrections or recounts made after it, so a figure read out on 2 Jun can differ slightly from these; the declared figures were not found in an IEC document and were not used. Seats are the 'Party Total' (Seats Assigned) column of the IEC's Seat Calculation report (https://results.elections.org.za/home/NPEPublicReports/1334/National%20Ballot/Seat%20Calculation/National.pdf), stamped 'Results as at: 06/06/2024 11:56:55 AM': the nine regional columns add up to 200 and the party totals to 400; no seats forfeited. The 400 seats are one proportional allocation on the national (compensatory) ballot; the regional ballot is a second ballot, used only to allocate the 200 regional seats among parties and independent candidates in the nine regions, and the national lists fill each party's remaining seats. Rows: the 18 parties that won seats (they sum to 15,751,186 votes and 400 seats); no other party had more than 1% of valid votes. The other 34 parties on the national ballot had 326,156 votes together (largest: #HOPE4SA 27,216, 0.17%). totalVotes = 'Total Valid Votes' 16,077,342; spoilt votes 213,418; ballots = 'Total Votes Cast' 16,290,760; electorate = 'Registered Population' 27,782,081 (the file includes 58,802 registered abroad, marked '**'); turnout 58.64%. The IEC's 2024 National and Provincial Elections Report gives 16 291 516 voters on 29 May 2024 and a certified roll of 27 782 477 (12 Mar 2024), which differ slightly from the results file; the file's figures are used. Most votes and seats: African National Congress, 6,459,284 votes (40.18%), 159 seats. Party names and abbreviations as the IEC lists them (case adjusted). Licence: Copyright Act 98 of 1978, s.12(8)(a), read 5 Oct 2026 on WIPO Lex (https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/legislation/details/4067, text as amended to Act 9 of 2002): 'No copyright shall subsist in official texts of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, or in official translations of such texts, or in speeches of a political nature or in speeches delivered in the course of legal proceedings, or in news of the day that are mere items of press information.' The IEC's results reports are the Commission's official results under Electoral Act s.57, an official text of an administrative nature; per Chris's ruling of 5 Oct 2026 that exclusion overrides the IEC's Copyright Notice and Disclaimer (personal, non-commercial use only). Read from files downloaded 3 Oct 2026; not re-fetched, as the IEC Disclaimer forbids crawling. Published by Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), results.elections.org.za, 21 Jun 2024: results.elections.org.za/home/NPEPublicReports/1334/National%20Ballot/Results%20Report/National.pdf. South Africa Copyright Act 98 of 1978, s.12(8)(a): no copyright subsists in official texts of a legislative, administrative or legal nature; IEC website terms (non-commercial) do not apply to the official results.