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South African general election, 1981

1977 ←

29 April 1981 (1981-04-29)

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All 165 elected seats in the House of Assembly

	First party	Second party

Leader	P. W. Botha	Frederik van Zyl Slabbert
Party	National Party	Progressive Federal Party
Last election	134	17
Seats won	131	26
Seat change	3	9

Prime Minister before election

P. W. Botha
National Party

Elected Prime Minister

P. W. Botha
National Party

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During the 1981 South African general election, held on 29 April of that year, the National Party, under the leadership of P. W. Botha since 1978, achieved another landslide victory, winning 131 of 165 seats in the House of Assembly, which had become the sole legislative chamber following the abolition of the Senate that year. Meanwhile the Progressive Federal Party - led since 1979 by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, an Afrikaner - increased its representation in parliament to 26 seats, thus consolidating its position as the official opposition.

The Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), which representented the right-wing conservative Afrikaners, received 14.1% of the popular vote but did not gain any seats in Parliament.

Results [edit]

Party	Leader	Votes	%	Elected seats^[1]	Other seats¹	Total seats
National Party	P.W. Botha	777 558	56.96%	131	12	143
Progressive Federal Party	Frederik van Zyl Slabbert	265 297	19.44%	26	1	27
Herstigte Nasionale Party	Jaap Marais	192 304	14.09%	0	0	0
New Republic Party	Vause Raw	106 764	7.82%	8	0	8
Others		23 044	1.68%	0	0	0
Total			100.00%	165	13	178

¹ Nominated seats partially based on the proportion of elected seats.

References [edit]

^ http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/SOUTH_AFRICA_1981_E.PDF

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See also: Elections and referendums in the Boer republics and South African colonies Elections and referendums in South African Bantustans

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