1994 Western Cape provincial election

none The 1994 Western Cape provincial election was held between 26 and 29 April 1994 to elect the 1st Western Cape Provincial Parliament. Running concurrently with the 1994 South African general election, the provincial elections were the first in which citizens of all races were allowed to take part, and were therefore also the first held with universal suffrage. The election was conducted under the direction of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and marked the culmination of the four-year process that ended apartheid. The National Party won the majority of seats in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. Unlike the results across seven of South Africa's provinces, Western Cape was one of the two provinces in which the African National Congress was elected to opposition status, the other being KwaZulu-Natal. Results File:Western Cape Provincial Legislature 1994.svg National Party 1138242 23 African National Congress 705576 14 Democratic Party 141970 3 Freedom Front 44003 1 African Christian Democratic Party 25731 1 Pan Africanist Congress 22676 0 Africa Muslim Party 20954 0 Islamic Party 16762 0 Inkatha Freedom Party 7445 0 Wes-Kaap Federaliste Party 6337 0 South African Women's Party 2641 0 Green Party 2611 0 African Democratic Movement 1939 0 Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International 855 0 10714 Election Resources Aftermath The National Party gained the majority of seats in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, with Hernus Kriel, who previously served as the Minister of Law and Order in the South African government under Frederik Willem de Klerk, becoming the first premier of the new province. Kriel served as premier and provincial leader of the National Party until 1998, when he was succeeded by Gerald Morkel, who led the party in the 1999 provincial election. References Category:Elections in the Western Cape Category:1994 elections in South Africa