With the final results announced officially by the IEC on Saturday, 11 May 2019, the ANC has won the sixth general election. The ANC received a little over 10 million votes. This was followed by the DA and EF. The ANC also retained its majority in all provinces except the Western Cape where it is the official opposition to the DA. The DA is the opposition once again in the Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, Free State and Gauteng, while the EFF is yet again the opposition in Limpopo and North West, while taking that role from the DA in Mpumalanga.

In the National Assembly, the African Transformation Movement (ATM), Good and Al Jama-ah are the new entrants while the African People’s Convention (APC) and Agang SA will not be returning

This election, a record number of 48 political parties contested the national ballot

Parliament has 400 seats which are allocated proportionally to the parties who received the highest number of votes. In the Sixth Parliament, 14 parties will be represented 

 

2014				2019
PARTY	SEATS	% OF VOTES		PARTY	SEATS	% OF VOTES
ANC	249	62.15%		ANC	230	57.50%
DA	89	22.25%		DA	84	20.77%
EFF	25	6.25%		EFF	44	10.79%
IFP	10	2.50%		IFP	14	3.38%
NFP	6	1.50%		FF PLUS	10	2.38%
UDM	4	1.00%		ACDP	4	0.84%
FF PLUS	4	1.00%		UDM	2	0.45%
COPE	3	0.75%		ATM	2	0.44%
AIC	3	0.75%		GOOD	2	0.40%
ACDP	3	0.75%		NFP	2	0.35%
AGANG SA	2	0.50%		AIC	2	0.28%
PAC	1	0.25%		COPE	2	0.27%
APC	1			PAC	1	0.19%
				ALJAMA	1	0.18%

 

 

 

 

2014					2019
PARTY	SEATS		% OF VOTES		PARTY	SEATS	% OF VOTES
EASTERN CAPE
ANC	45	70.09%			ANC	44	68.74%
DA	10	16.20%			DA	10	15.73%
UDM	4	6.16%			EFF	5	7.84%
EFF	1	3.48%			UDM	2	2.60%
COPE	1	1.20%			ATM	1	1.52%
AIC	1	0.77%			FF PLUS	1	0.58%
FREE STATE
ANC	22	69.85%			ANC	19	61.14%
DA	5	16.23%			DA	6	17.58%
EFF	2	8.15%			EFF	4	12.58%
FF+	1	2.10%			FF PLUS	1	3.96%
GAUTENG
ANC	40	53.59%			ANC	37	50.19%
DA	23	30.78%			DA	20	27.45%
EFF	8	10.30%			EFF	11	14.69%
FF+	1	1.20%			FF PLUS	3	3.56%
IFP	1	0.78%			IFP	1	0.89%
					ACDP	1	0.71%
KZN
ANC	52	64.52%			ANC	44	54.22%
DA	10	12.76%			IFP	13	16.43%
IFP	9	10.86%			DA	11	13.90%
NFP	6	7.31%			EFF	8	9.71%
EFF	2	1.85%			NFP	1	1.57%
MF	1	1.02%			MF	1	0.52%
					ATM	1	0.49%
					ACDP	1	9.48%
LIMPOPO
ANC	39	78.60%			ANC	38	75.49%
EFF	6	10.74%			EFF	7	14.43%
DA	3	6.48%			DA	3	5.40%
COPE	1	0.86%			FF PLUS	1	1.42%
MPUMALANGA
ANC	24	78.23%			ANC	22	70.58%
DA	3	10.40%			EFF	4	12.79%
EFF	2	6.26%			DA	3	9.77%
BRA	1	1.15%			FF PLUS	1	2.43%
NORTH WEST
ANC	23	67.39%			ANC	21	61.87%
EFF	5	13.21%			EFF	6	18.64%
DA	4	12.7%			DA	4	11.18%
FF+	1	1.72%			FF PLUS	2	4.32%
NORTHERN CAPE
ANC	20	64.40%			ANC	18	57.54%
DA	7	23.89%			DA	8	25.51%
EFF	2	4.96%			EFF	3	9.71%
COPE	1	3.60%			FF PLUS	1	2.68%
WESTERN CAPE
DA	26	59.38%			DA	24	55.45%
ANC	14	32.89%			ANC	12	28.63%
EFF	1	2.11%			EFF	2	4.04%
ACDP	1	1.02%			GOOD	1	3.01%
					ACDP	1	2.66%
					FF PLUS	1	1.56%
					ALJAMA	1	0.86%

With the final results announced officially by the IEC on Saturday, 11 May 2019, the ANC has won the sixth general election. The ANC received a little over 10 million votes. This was followed by the DA and EF. The ANC also retained its majority in all provinces except the Western Cape where it is the official opposition to the DA. The DA is the opposition once again in the Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, Free State and Gauteng, while the EFF is yet again the opposition in Limpopo and North West, while taking that role from the DA in Mpumalanga.