2009 South African general election

General elections were held in South Africa on 22 April 2009 to elect members of the National Assembly and provincial legislatures. These were the fourth general elections held since the end of the apartheid era.

22 April 2009

All 400 seats in the National Assembly
201 seats needed for a majority

Registered

23,181,997

Turnout

77.30% ( 0.60pp)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jacob Zuma	Helen Zille	Mosiuoa Lekota
Party	ANC	DA	COPE
Last election	69.69%, 279 seats	12.37%, 50 seats	Did not exist
Seats won	264	67	30
Seat change	15	17	New party
Popular vote	11,650,748	2,945,829	1,311,027
Percentage	65.90%	16.66%	7.42%
Swing	3.79pp	4.29pp	New party

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Mangosuthu Buthelezi	Patricia de Lille	Bantu Holomisa
Party	IFP	ID	UDM
Last election	6.97%, 28 seats	1.73%, 7 seats	2.28%, 9 seats
Seats won	18	4	4
Seat change	10	3	5
Popular vote	804,260	162,915	149,680
Percentage	4.55%	0.92%	0.85%
Swing	2.42pp	0.81pp	1.43pp

President before election

Kgalema Motlanthe
ANC

Elected President

Jacob Zuma
ANC

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The North Gauteng High Court ruled on 9 February 2009 that South African citizens living abroad should be allowed to vote in elections. The judgment was confirmed by the Constitutional Court on 12 March 2009, when it decided that overseas voters who were already registered would be allowed to vote. Registered voters who found themselves outside their registered voting districts on election day were also permitted to vote for the national ballot at any voting station in South Africa.

The result was a victory for the ruling African National Congress (ANC), which won 264 of the 400 seats in the National Assembly, a fifteen seat reduction compared to the 2004 elections and losing its two-thirds supermajority. ANC leader Jacob Zuma became president.

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