1924 South African general election

none July 2022 August 2012 December 2009 South Africa 1912 Parliamentary 1921 South African general election 1921 17 June 1924 1929 South African general election 1929 All 135 seats in the House of Assembly 68 413,136 77.23% ( 21.63pp) 130x130px JBM Hertzog - SA (cropped).jpg J. B. M. Hertzog National Party (South Africa) Smithfield 38.15%, 44 seats 63 19 111,483 35.25% 2.90pp Genl JC Smuts (cropped).jpg Jan Smuts South African Party Pretoria West(lost re-election) 49.92%, 77 seats 53 24 148,769 47.04% 2.86pp Kolonel Cresswell (cropped).jpg Frederic Creswell Labour Party (South Africa) Denver 10.68%, 10 seats 18 8 45,380 14.35% 3.67pp Prime Minister Jan Smuts South African Party J. B. M. Hertzog National Party (South Africa) 1924 South African general election map - results by province.svg Results by province General elections were held in South Africa on 17 June 1924,"Smuts Is Certain of Victory Today— Dramatic Turn Throughout Country Towards Premier— Hertzog Distrusted", Montreal Gazette, 17 June 1924, p.1 electing 135 members of the House of Assembly. Considered a realigning election, rising discontent with the government of Jan Smuts led to the defeat of his government by a coalition of the pro-Afrikaner National Party and the South African Labour Party, a socialist party representing the interests of the white proletariat."Smuts Loses Seat; Party May Be Beaten; Returns From Urban Districts Show Defeats for His Supporters in Many Instances", The New York Times, 18 June 1924, p.11 Smuts had angered South African nationalists by his moderate stance on South African independence from the British Empire. The worldwide depression after the end of the First World War had led to a strike in South Africa, known as the Rand Rebellion, which had been defused through a combination of military force and negotiation with the outgunned unions, earning Smuts the enmity of the labour vote. As a consequence Smuts's SAP was defeated by a Nationalist–Labour Pact, J. B. M. Hertzog formed the government and became Prime Minister – a position he was to hold until 1939. 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 fourth delimitation report of 1923, is set out in the table below. The figures in brackets are the number of electoral divisions in the previous (1919) 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 50 (49) 135 (134) Results Results of the 1924 South African general election File:South African House of Assembly 1924.svg South African Party 148769 53 –24 National Party 111483 63 +19 Labour Party 45380 18 +8 Independents 10610 1 0 +1 2805 413136 South Africa 1982South Africa 1982, pp. 174, 176 References South Africa 1982: Official Yearbook of the Republic of South Africa, published by Chris van Rensburg Publications Category:General elections in South Africa General South Africa