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I'm Bartłomiej Paruzel, and I built ElectioMap to map national elections around the world. This is the South Africa hub on ElectioMap — it brings together the 3 South Africa elections I cover: 2 with the official results, vote and turnout shares to two decimal places (and, where the electoral authority publishes an official regional breakdown, an interactive map you can explore region by region), plus a preview of the upcoming vote.
South Africa is a parliamentary republic whose democratic order dates from 1994, when the first non-racial elections ended apartheid and brought universal suffrage. Its system is unusual in combining a purely proportional electoral method with an executive presidency chosen by the legislature. The National Assembly has 400 members elected by closed-list proportional representation with no electoral threshold, so a party's share of seats closely mirrors its share of the national vote and small parties win representation easily. The Assembly in turn elects the president, who is therefore both head of state and head of government but remains accountable to parliament — a hybrid of parliamentary and presidential features. A second chamber, the National Council of Provinces, represents the nine provinces, each of which also elects its own legislature on the same day as the national vote. For its first three decades the system was dominated by a single party: the African National Congress (ANC), the liberation movement of Nelson Mandela, which governed continuously from 1994 under Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa. That dominance ended in 2024, when the ANC fell below 50% of the vote for the first time and was forced to form a Government of National Unity with several rivals. The main opposition is the Democratic Alliance (DA), a liberal, market-oriented party; to its left stands the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a radical party led by Julius Malema; and in 2024 a new force, the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party built around former president Zuma, fractured the ANC vote further, especially in KwaZulu-Natal. Because seats are allocated proportionally, the headline vote shares translate almost directly into the balance of the 400-seat Assembly, and coalition arithmetic has become central to South African politics for the first time in the democratic era. Elections are administered by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). This hub collects South Africa's national elections since 2015, each with a full breakdown by party and an interactive map of the leading party in every one of the nine provinces.
Each election listed here has its own page with the full breakdown by party or candidate and an interactive map of the result.
Every figure on ElectioMap is taken from the official electoral authority for South Africa — the national election commission or equivalent body that certifies the count. I enter vote and turnout percentages exactly as published, to two decimal places and without rounding, and show seat totals wherever a chamber is being filled. When ElectioMap covers an election live, the page updates automatically as official figures are released. For the full sourcing and update policy, see Data & Methodology and the Editorial Policy.
The next national election ElectioMap is tracking in South Africa is the Municipal Election 2026, scheduled for Nov 4, 2026. Live results will appear on its page as soon as counting begins.
All South Africa figures come from the official electoral authority that certifies the count, entered exactly as published to two decimal places. See the Data & Methodology page for the full sourcing and update policy.
Where the electoral authority publishes an official regional breakdown, the South Africa election page includes an interactive map — click a region to see how each party or candidate performed there. Where no official per-region data exists, the page shows the certified national result and says so.