2024 South African general election
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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 will be the seventh 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.
This article documents a current election. Information may change rapidly as the election progresses until official results have been published. Initial news reports may be unreliable, and the last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. |
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All 400 seats in the National Assembly 201 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 27,672,264 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reporting | 0.57% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Since the inaugural post-apartheid election in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC) has continuously achieved a majority in both chambers of the South African Parliament: the National Assembly (lower house) and the National Council of Provinces (upper house).
The date of the elections was set by the incumbent president, Cyril Ramaphosa, and was required to be within 90 days of the end of the term of the current Parliament.[3] It was announced on 20 February 2024 that the election would be held on 29 May 2024.[4]