🇿🇦 South Africa
All elections and results
Parliamentary elections
Municipal elections
How South Africa votes
South Africa is a parliamentary republic whose democratic order dates from 1994, when the first non-racial elections ended apartheid and brought universal suffrage. 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. Elections are administered by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).