List of political parties in South Africa

This is a list of political parties in South Africa. South Africa is a democratic but one-party dominant state with the African National Congress in power.

The parties

Parties represented in Parliament

Party	Also known as	National Assembly seats[1]
African Christian Democratic Party	ACDP	3
African Independent Congress	AIC	3
African National Congress	ANC	249
African Peoples' Convention	APC	1
Agang South Africa	Agang	2
Congress of the People	COPE	3
Democratic Alliance	DA	89
Economic Freedom Fighters	EFF	25
Freedom Front Plus	FF+	4
Inkatha Freedom Party	IFP	10
National Freedom Party	NFP	6
Pan Africanist Congress	PAC	1
United Democratic Movement	UDM	4

Parties unrepresented in Parliament

• Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party
• Africa Muslim Party
• African Christian Alliance^[2]
• Afrikaner Volksparty^[3]
• Alliance for Democracy and Prosperity
• Alliance for Community Transfomation
• Alliance of Free Democrats^[4]
• Al Jama-ah
• A-Party^[5]
• Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO)
• Black First Land First (BLF)
• Boerestaat Party
• Bolshevik Party of South Africa^[6]
• Black Consciousness Party
• Black People's Convention
• Cape Party^[7]
• Cape People's Congress
• Christen Party/Christian Party
• Christian Democratic Party
• Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)^[8]
• Dabalorivhuwa Patriotic Front
• Dagga Party^[9]
• Democratic Left Front
• Democratic Socialist movement (CWI)
• Dikwankwetla Party
• Economic Freedom Movement
• Employment Movement of South Africa
• ECOPEACE Party
• Federation of Democrats
• Front Nasionaal (FN) (previously Federale Vryheidsparty)^[10]
• God's People's Party^[11]
• Great Kongress of South Africa
• Green Party of South Africa (GPSA)
• Herstigte Nasionale Party
• Independent African Movement
• Izwi Lethu Party
• Keep It Straight And Simple Party
• Kingdom Governance Movement
• Libertarian Party of South Africa ^[12]
• Minority Front (MF)
• Moderate Independent Party
• Movement Democratic Party
• National Alliance^[13]
• National Conservative Party of South Africa
• National Democratic Convention (NADECO)
• National Party South Africa (NP)
• National People's Party (NPP)^[14]
• New Vision Party
• The Organisation Party
• Pan Africanist Movement
• Patriotic Alliance
• Peace and Justice Congress
• Republican Democrats^[15]
• Royal Loyal Progress
• Sindawonye Progressive Party
• Social Democratic Party SA
• Socialist Green Coalition^[16]
• Socialist Party of Azania
• South African Communist Party (SACP) – as part of the ANC-led "Tripartite Alliance" since 1994, the SACP has not contested elections in their own name
• South African Political Party
• The Peoples Independent Civic Organisation
• True Freedom Party^[17]
• Ubuntu Party
• United Christian Democratic Party (UCDP)
• United Congress
• United Party of South Africa
• United Front
• Women Forward^[18]
• Workers and Socialist Party (WASP)
• Workers Organization for Socialist Action
• Ximoko Party

Defunct parties

The following political parties are defunct.

• Afrikaner Party (AP)(1941–1951)
• Conservative Party (CP) (1982–2004)
• Labour Party (1910–1958)
• South African Party (SAP) (1911–1934)
• National Party (NP) (1915–1997) government from 4 June 1948 until 9 May 1994
• Dominion Party(1934–1948)
• United Party (UP)(1934–1977)
• Liberal Party of South Africa (1953–1968)
• Progressive Party(1957–1975)
• Labour Party (1969-1994)
• Democratic Party (DP) (1973–1977)
• Progressive Reform Party (1975–1977)
• Reform Party(1975–1975)
• New Republic Party(1977–1988)
• Progressive Federal Party (PFP)(1977–1989)
• South African Party (SAP) (1977–1980)
• Democratic Party (DP) (1989–2000)
• New National Party (NNP)(1997–2005)
• Federal Alliance (1998–2007)
• Independent Democrats (ID)(2003–2014)
• Nasionale Aksie (2003-???2004)
• Pro-death Penalty Party (2004??)
• New Labour Party (NLP) (2004-2009)
• South African Democratic Congress (Sadeco)(2008-2011)
• Christian Democratic Alliance (???–2009)
• United Independent Front (2005-~2010)
• South African Business Party (???–2012)
• Christian Front (CF)^[19] (???–2014)
• Universal Party(???–2014)
• Federal Party (FP)

See also

• Politics of South Africa
• List of political parties by country

References

1. "ANC wins 249 seats". News24. 10 May 2014. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
2. African Christian Alliance
3. Afrikaner Volksparty
4. Alliance of Free Democrats
5. A-Party
6. "BPSA". BPSA. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
7. The Cape Party
8. http://www.cpsa-ml.co.za/
9. http://www.daggaparty.co.za/
10. "Legal Notice No 37064". Government Gazette. 581 C. 29 November 2013.
11. God's People's Party
12. http://www.libpartysa.com/. Missing or empty |title= (help); External link in |website= (help);
13. http://www.nationalalliance.co.za/
14. http://www.npp.za.net/ National Peoples Party
15. "New political party, the Republican Democrats to contest elections". Times LIVE. 7 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
17. http://truefreedomparty.org.za/
18. http://www.womenforward.org.za Women Forward
19. "Five parties deregistered by IEC". Times LIVE. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2014. five parties – the Justice Party, the Real Congress, the United Democratic Civic Organisation, the Unemployed People's Party and the Christian Front – were deregistered

External links

• Independent Electoral Commission
• Political parties in South Africa at DMOZ
• ANC's foes rise up