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Democracy Ratings
| Freedom House 2018 |
Score: 2 out of 7 (where lower scores are more democratic) |
Freedom Status: Free |
|---|---|---|
| EIU Democracy Index 2017 |
Score: 7.24 out of 10 (where higher scores are more democratic) |
World Ranking: 41 |
| Polity IV 2016 |
Score: 9 (from -10 to 10, where higher scores are more democratic) |
Category: Democracy |
Political System
| System of Government | Presidential, with executive president linked to parliament |
|---|---|
| Presidential Electoral System | First past the post |
| Last Presidential Election | 2014 |
| Next Presidential Election | 2019 |
| Presidential Term Limits | Two, five-year terms |
| System of Appointment to Legislature | Lower Chamber: Party list proportional representation, with half from provincial lists and half from national listsUpper Chamber: indirectly elected through provincial legislatures, who each appoint 10 people |
| Last Legislative Election |
2014 |
| Next Legislative Election |
2019 |
| Number of Seats in Legislature | Lower Chamber: 400Upper Chamber: 90 |
| Female quota, representation in lower house | No |
Results
| Last legislative election (2014) | ||
| Party | Votes (%) | Seats |
| African National Congress | 62.15 | 249 |
| Democratic Alliance | 22.23 | 89 |
| Economic Freedom Fighters | 6 | 25 |
| Inkatha Freedom Party | 2 | 10 |
| National Freedom Party | 2 | 6 |
| United Democratic Movement | 1 | 4 |
| Freedom Front Plus | 1 | 4 |
| Congress of the People | 1 | 3 |
| African Christian Democratic Party | 1 | 3 |
| African Independent Congress | 1 | 3 |
| Agang SA | 0 | 2 |
| Pan Africanist Congress | 0 | 1 |
| African People’s Convention | 0.17 | 1 |
| Al Jama-ah | 0.14 | 0 |
| Minority Front | 0 | 0 |
| United Christian Democratic Party | 0 | 0 |
| Azanian People’s Organisation | 0 | 0 |
| Bushbuckridge Residents Association | 0 | 0 |
| Independent Civic Organisation | 0 | 0 |
| Patriotic Alliance | 0 | 0 |
| Workers and Socialist Party | 0 | 0 |
| Ubuntu Party | 0.04 | 0 |
| Kingdom Governance Movement | 0.03 | 0 |
| Front National | 0 | 0 |
| Keep It Straight and Simple Party | 0 | 0 |
| Pan Africanist Movement | 0.02 | 0 |
| First Nation Liberation Alliance | 0 | 0 |
| United Congress | 0 | 0 |
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