1920 South African general election

none December 2009 January 2021 South Africa 1912 Parliamentary 1915 South African general election 1915 10 March 1920 1921 South African general election 1921 All 134 seats in the House of Assembly 68 421,790 66.94% ( 4.63pp) JBM Hertzog - SA (cropped).jpg J. B. M. Hertzog Smithfield National Party (South Africa) 29.41%, 27 seats 43 16 90,512 32.62% 3.21pp Genl JC Smuts (cropped).jpg Jan Smuts Pretoria West South African Party 36.67%, 54 seats 41 13 101,227 36.48% 0.19pp SirThomasSmartt.jpg 112 112 150 10 0 Thomas Smartt Fort Beaufort Unionist Party (South Africa) 19.42%, 39 seats 25 14 38,946 14.03% 5.39pp Kolonel Cresswell (cropped).jpg Frederic Creswell Troyeville Labour Party (South Africa) 9.63%, 4 seats 21 17 40,639 14.65% 5.01pp Prime Minister Jan Smuts South African Party Jan Smuts South African Party 1920 South African general election map - results by province.svg Results by province General elections were held in South Africa on 10 March 1920 to elect the 134 members of the House of Assembly. The South African General Election was held on March 10th http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/20th-march-1920/2/the-south-african-general-election-was-held-on-mar The Spectator London 20 March 1920 21 February 2016 This was for the third Union Parliament. The National Party (NP) won the largest number of seats, but not a majority. The South African Party (SAP) minority government continued in office, with Unionist Party support in Parliament. This was the third successive term of SAP government, but only the second period with General Jan Smuts as Prime Minister. The first SAP premier (General Louis Botha) had died in office in 1919, during the previous Parliament. The National Party became the official opposition for the first time. Delimitation of electoral divisions The South Africa Act 1909 had provided for a delimitation commission to define the boundaries for each electoral division. The representation by province, under the third delimitation report of 1919, is set out in the table below. The figures in brackets are the number of electoral divisions in the previous (1913) delimitation. If there is no figure in brackets then the number was unchanged.South Africa 1982, page 129 Provinces Cape Natal Orange Free State Transvaal Total Divisions 51 17 17 49 (45) 134 (130) Results Results of the 1920 South African general election The vote totals in the table below may not give a complete picture of the balance of political opinion, because of unopposed elections (where no votes were cast) and because contested seats may not have been fought by a candidate from all major parties. File:South African House of Assembly 1920.svg South African Party 101227 41 –13 National Party 90512 43 +16 Labour Party 40639 21 +17 Unionist Party 38946 25 –14 Socialist League 202 0 0 #FF007F Independents 5968 3 –3 Vacant 1 – +4 4867 421790 PotgieterDirk J. Potgieter (1971) Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Volume 4, p. 272 References South Africa 1982: Official Yearbook of the Republic of South Africa, published by Chris van Rensburg Publications Category:General elections in South Africa South Africa General South Africa