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Elections 2004
The Numbers
Elections are all about numbers
- a type of numbers game where the winner rules the country. This page has
some interesting facts and figures that might not have a direct bearing on
the outcome, but give a slightly different perspective to voting day. |
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Elections 2004 in
numbers - summary |
| Polling Stations |
16 966 |
| Registered voters |
20 674 926 |
| Parties contesting
Elections |
37 |
| People who applied to
vote overseas |
1 681 |
| Observer missions |
204 |
| Local election observers |
3 000 |
| Year |
Number
of Voting Districts: |
| 1999
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14 650 |
| 2000
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14 994 |
| 2004
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16 966 |
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Registration of
prisoners: After the Constitutional Court ruling on
March 3, instructing the Indepedent Electoral Commission to register all
qualifying prisoners as voters for the 2004 Elections, the Commission
registered 27 170 prisoners. IEC staff in co-operation with the Department
of Correctional Services visited 235 prisons countrywide from March 10 to 12
March to register persons in prisons.
A total of 190 applications were rejected after
verification processes were concluded against the national population
register.
| Province |
Number of Prisoners |
| Eastern Cape |
3 665 |
| Free State |
2 768 |
| Gauteng |
5 882 |
| KwaZulu-Natal |
3 605 |
| Limpopo |
863 |
| Mpumalanga |
1 584 |
| North West |
2 520 |
| Northern Cape |
1 017 |
| Western Cape |
5 266 |
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TOTAL |
27 170 |
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Number of overseas voters
= 1681
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Registered voters:
Provincial Gender Summary: |
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Province |
Female |
Male |
Total |
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Eastern Cape |
1 656 102 |
1 193 384 |
2 849 486 |
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Free State |
713 344 |
607 851 |
1 321 195 |
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Gauteng |
2 350 019 |
2 300 575 |
4 650 594 |
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KwaZulu-Natal |
2 176 061 |
1 643 803 |
3 819 864 |
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Mpumalanga |
773 843 |
668 629 |
1 442 472 |
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Northern Cape |
227 524 |
206 067 |
433 591 |
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Limpopo |
1 327 349 |
860 563 |
2 187 912 |
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North West |
919 635 |
829 894 |
1 749 529 |
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Western Cape |
1 190 151 |
1 030 132 |
2 220 283 |
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National Total |
11 334 028 |
9 340 898 |
20 674 926 |
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IEC Results Operations Centre
(ROC) in Pretoria
- Tshwabac Exhibition Centre hall: 12
000 sq/m
- Carpeting: 11 000sq/m (44 000 tiles)
- PCs installed by IEC: 350
- IEC network cabling: 2km
- IEC staff: 1 000 per shift
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Who will be voting? Summary
of Census 2001 - released on July 8, 2003:
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South
Africa’s total population as per the census was 44.8 million. Females
constitute 52.2%
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Smallest
population: Northern Cape - 0.8 million
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Spoken
Languages: IsiZulu - 23.8%; IsiXhosa - 17.6%; Afrikaans - 13.3%
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Percentage of
population aged 0-14 decreased from 34.3% in 1996 to 32.1% in 2001
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Percentage of
population aged 65 years and older increased from 4.8% in 1996 to 4.9%
in 2001
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Four out of
five South Africans 79% are Black Africans
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Unemployment
according to official definition: 41.6%
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Unemployment
according to the Labour Force survey in September 2001: 29.5%
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KZN has the largest
population of 9.4 million followed by Gauteng with 8.8 million
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The following is a
detailed breakdown of the profile of voters who are on the national
common voters roll:
Gender :
In all age categories,
women outnumber men in the registration figures. 54,8% of the total
number of registered voters are women.
Age
:
17% of eligible
voters are between the ages of 18 to 25 years and 44% are younger
than 35 years.
Rural-urban
:
Rural-based voters constitute 7 334 304 (35,5%) as opposed to 13 340
622 (64,5%) who are urban-based.
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