Regional Patterns in South Africa's Postapartheid Election in 1994

A J Christopher
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A J Christopher: Department of Geography, University of Port Elizabeth, PO Box 1600, Port Elizabeth 6000, South Africa

Environment and Planning C, 1996, vol. 14, issue 1, 55-69

Abstract: The first universal-franchise elections in South Africa, for the National Assembly and nine provincial councils, were conducted under a system of proportional representation in April 1994. The African National Congress won a substantial victory but failed to secure control of two key provinces: the Western Cape and KwaZulu—Natal. Ethnic voting patterns among the spatially concentrated Coloured and Zulu populations were at variance with the otherwise national-liberationary nature of the election. The South African experience of the significance of ethnic voting parallels that discerned in other emergent democracies, contributing to the widening field of electoral geography.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1068/c140055

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