1977-1983 general election and by-election results (incl. April 1981 general election)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	election returns
Producer	Official election results (not stated)
Coverage	1977-1983
Works using it	3

Project holdings

The project holds this source in full. See Elections.

Debates

Debate	Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	4
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Charney (1984)	General election returns and by-election results, 1977, 1981, 1982-83	1977-1983	By-election swings to the far right are used as an indicator of the strength of the right, since polls underrate it.
Lemon (1982)	1981 general election results (seats, vote shares, candidates, averages)	1977, 1981 (and 1979 by-elections)	Seat totals, HNP vote share (3.2% to 14.1%), candidate numbers and NRP average votes underpin the assessment of party performance.
Spence (1981a)	April 1981 South African general election results (seat and vote totals for PFP, Herstigte Nasionale Party, Nationalist Party, New Republic Party)	1977 and April 1981	Provides vote and seat figures to argue that the right-wing HNP gains constrained Botha's room for reform.