1948 general election results

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	election returns
Producer	Union electoral authorities (unspecified)
Coverage	1943-1948
Works using it	3

Project holdings

The project holds this source in full. See Elections.

Debates

Debate	Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Davies et al. (1976)	1948 general election results (seats lost by UP, Nationalist gains)	1943-1948	Shows the defection of rural and mining constituencies that gave the NP victory.
Posel (1983)	1948 election result (referred to, no returns cited)	1948	The slim National Party victory is invoked as a contingent political factor beyond class determination.
Price (1953)	1948 general election results	May 1948	Baseline for party seat strengths and the claim that Smuts won nearly 60% of votes yet lost office.