South African general elections
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This article lists the general election
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There were also three referendums in the history of South Africa:
General election
In a parliamentary political system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.The term...
s held in the history of South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
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- South African general election, 1910South African general election, 1910The 1910 South African general election was held for the 121 seats in the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, on 15 September 1910. This was the first general election, after the Union came into force on 31 May 1910....
- Establishment of the Union of South AfricaUnion of South AfricaThe Union of South Africa is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. It came into being on 31 May 1910 with the unification of the previously separate colonies of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State... - South African general election, 1915South African general election, 1915The 1915 South African general election was held on 20 October 1915 for the 130 seats in the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa. This was the second Union Parliament...
- South African general election, 1920South African general election, 1920The 1920 South African general election was held for the 134 seats in the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, on 20 March 1920. This was for the third Union Parliament....
- South African general election, 1921South African general election, 1921The 1921 South African general election was held for the 134 seats in the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, on 8 February 1921. The South African Party, which since the previous election had fused with the Unionist Party, won an absolute majority.-Delimitation of electoral...
- South African general election, 1924South African general election, 1924The 1924 South African general election was a realigning election in the Union of South Africa's House of Assembly held on June 19, 1924 to elect 135 members...
- South African general election, 1929South African general election, 1929In the 1929 South African general election, held on 14 June of that year, the National Party under James Barry Munnik Hertzog won an outright majority in tne House of Assembly. Hertzog had the opportunity to form a government without the aid of the Labour Party. In fact the Pact government...
- South African general election, 1933South African general election, 1933The 1933 South African general election was held for the 150 seats in the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, on 17 May 1933. The National Party won half the seats in the House, but the coalition with the South African Party continued....
- South African general election, 1938South African general election, 1938The 1938 South African general election was held, on 18 May 1938, for the 150 seats in the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa. The United Party won an absolute majority.-Party changes since the last general election:...
- South African general election, 1943South African general election, 1943The 1943 South African general election was held for the 152 seats in the parliament of the Union of South Africa. The United Party of Jan Smuts won an absolute majority over its opponents in the House of Assembly....
- South African general election, 1948South African general election, 1948The parliamentary election in South Africa on 26 May 1948 represented a turning point in the country's history. The United Party, which had led the government since its foundation in 1933 and its leader, incumbent Prime Minister Jan Smuts was ousted by the Reunited National Party , led by Daniel...
- Establishment of apartheid - South African general election, 1953South African general election, 1953The 1953 South African general election consolidated the position of the National Party under DF Malan, who won an absolute majority of the 156 seats in the House of Assembly...
- South African general election, 1958South African general election, 1958The 1958 South African general election led to a victory for the National Party, under the leadership of J.G. Strijdom, which took 103 seats in the House of Assembly.-Native Representative Members:...
- South African general election, 1961South African general election, 1961The 1961 South African general election was the first general election after South Africa became a republic following the 1960 South African referendum. The National Party under Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd won a majority in the House of Assembly....
- Establishment of the Republic of South Africa - South African general election, 1966South African general election, 1966The 1966 South African general election, on 30 March 1966, resulted in yet another comprehensive victory for the National Party under Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd....
- South African general election, 1970South African general election, 1970The 1970 South African general election was held on 22 April for the 166-seat House of Assembly. Parliament was dissolved on 2 March and the deadline for the submission of candidates was 13 March...
- South African general election, 1974South African general election, 1974The 1974 South African general election, held on 24 April, was called one year earlier than scheduled by Prime Minister John Vorster on 4 February. The House of Assembly was increased from 166 to 171 members. The Progressive Party made a major advance. In addition to Helen Suzman, re-elected for...
- South African general election, 1977South African general election, 1977The 1977 South African general election was held on 30 November 1977. The National Party, led by John Vorster won a landslide victory in the House of Assembly. The newly formed Progressive Federal Party, led by Colin Eglin became the official opposition. The New Republic Party, successor to the...
- South African general election, 1981South African general election, 1981During the 1981 South African general election, the National Party achieved another landslide victory, winning 131 of 165 seats in the House of Assembly, which had become the sole legislative chamber following the abolition of the Senate that year...
- South African general election, 1984South African general election, 1984The 1984 South African general election held in August of that year, it saw a number of Coloured and Indian parties participating in an election for the houses of Parliament created for their respective racial groups, although a majority of people in both of these groups opposed the Tricameral...
- Establishment of the Tricameral ParliamentTricameral ParliamentThe Tricameral Parliament was the name given to the South African parliament and its structure from 1984 to 1994, established by the South African Constitution of 1983... - South African general election, 1987South African general election, 1987The 1987 South African general election was held on 6 May 1987. The State of Emergency existing in South Africa at that time cast a cloud over the elections. It was once again won by the National Party under the leadership of P. W...
- South African general election, 1989South African general election, 1989The 1989 South African general election was South Africa's last national race-based parliamentary election. The election was called early to gauge support for the recently elected head of the National Party, Frederik Willem de Klerk and his program of reform, which was to...
- South African general election, 1994South African general election, 1994The South African general election of 1994 was an election held in South Africa to mark the end of apartheid, therefore also the first held with universal adult suffrage. The election was conducted under the direction of the Independent Electoral Commission .Millions queued in lines over a three...
- First fully democratic elections - South African general election, 1999South African general election, 1999South Africa's second non-racial general election, held on 2 June 1999 was won by the African National Congress , who increased their number of seats by 14. Notable was the sharp decline of the New National Party, previously the National Party , who without former president F.W. de Klerk lost more...
- South African general election, 2004South African general election, 2004Legislative elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority....
- South African general election, 2009South African general election, 2009South Africa held national and provincial elections to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each province on 22 April 2009....
There were also three referendums in the history of South Africa:
- South African referendum, 1960South African referendum, 1960In 1960, the National Party government of South Africa held a referendum on whether or not the then Union of South Africa should abandon its status as a Commonwealth realm and become a republic...
- Referendum on becoming a republic - South African referendum, 1983 - Referendum on implementing the Tricameral ParliamentTricameral ParliamentThe Tricameral Parliament was the name given to the South African parliament and its structure from 1984 to 1994, established by the South African Constitution of 1983...
- South African referendum, 1992South African referendum, 1992The 1992 referendum was held in South Africa on 17 March of that year. In it, white South Africans were asked to vote in the country's last whites-only referendum to determine whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President F.W. de Klerk two years earlier, in which he...
- Referendum on becoming a multiracial democracy