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Official final result · National Ballot rank #2

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE election result.

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE received 3,506,855 National Ballot votes (21.81% of valid votes), ranking 2 of 52 parties. The IEC final allocation assigned 87 National Assembly seats.

Direct answer

21.81% of valid National Ballot votes.

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE received 3,506,855 votes nationwide and ranked #2. That vote percentage is not presented as the seat formula.

National Ballot rank
#2 of 52
National Ballot votes
3,506,855
Valid-vote share
21.81%
Total seats
87
Separate IEC seat calculation

87 final National Assembly seats.

45regional seats
42national PR seats
87overall seats

The final 400-seat allocation is reproduced from the IEC seat-calculation report. National Assembly seats combine the 200 regional seats and 200 national proportional-representation seats under the official electoral system; they are not calculated from the National Ballot table alone.

Read the IEC electoral-system explanation ↗
Permanent party-result record

DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE (DA)

Election.org ID
eop-result-za-2024-national-assembly-party-democratic-alliance
Election
2024 South African general election
Ballot layer
National Ballot
Result status
Official final
Interpretation boundary

Election result, not a current-member roster.

These are historical final election and seat-allocation records. They do not establish the current membership roster after resignations, replacements, vacancies, or later party changes.

The vote table covers the National Ballot only; the separate Regional Ballot is not presented as a party-vote total on these pages.

Sources & notes
Source and freshness
Publisher
Electoral Commission of South Africa
Election date
29 May 2024
Verified
2026-08-26
Vote layer
National Ballot
Seats
Separate final allocation
Result
Official final
Open official result PDF ↗Open seat-calculation PDF ↗Open all official reports ↗iec-za-2024-national-ballot-results: 2931930f27426b05362460e3293c29237d2975055d464ed7858a194dfdec12a0iec-za-2024-national-assembly-seat-calculation: 68690211abe6b4e6ee533352a22d059eaed905aece390fbf03eee53d82bd08ee
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