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Number of seats allocated to parties

The National Assembly consist of 400 seats and make-up of the 13 parties that had sufficient votes.

It was on May 10, 20 years ago that former president Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the country’s first democratic president.

13 out of 29 political parties have received sufficient votes to have representation in the National Assembly.

The National Assembly consist of 400 seats and make-up of the 13 parties that had sufficient votes.

The ANC received 249 seats while the Democratic Alliance (DA) received 89 seats.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) received 25 seats, the third highest number, while the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) received 10 and its breakaway party, the National Freedom Party (NFP), received six.

The United Democratic Movement (UDM) and the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) both received four seats.

The Congress of the People (Cope), AIC and African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) secured three seats each.

Mamphela Ramphele’s Agang SA received two seats while the African People’s Convention (APC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) received one seat each.

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