Government Gazette election returns and Chief Electoral Officer voters' lists and registration data

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	election returns
Producer	Union Government; Chief Electoral Officer, Department of the Interior
Coverage	1910-1958
Works using it	2

Project holdings

The project holds this source in part. See Elections.

Debates

Debate	Works
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
Brink et al. (1953)	Current voters' lists under Act No. 46 of 1946 (as amended by Acts 51 of 1948 and 55 of 1952), corrected up to 30 April 1952, supplied by the Chief Electoral Officer	corrected to 30 April 1952	Gives the white voter totals per province (1,539,802 in all), which fix the Union quota of 10,265.35 and the seat allocation.
Brink et al. (1953)	Polling-district level voter registration figures and constituency percentages above/below quota	1947 and 1952	Used to assess each seat's deviation from quota, the shift of voters between rural and urban areas, and the transfer of polling districts between seats.
Brink et al. (1953)	Total (white and non-white) voters on current voters' lists per province	30 April 1952	Sets the provincial quotas (total voters divided by seats) and the permissible 15% load and unload limits.
Carter (1958)	Government Gazette election returns, and Chief Electoral Officer data (postal votes, expenditures)	1910-1958	Source for seats and vote percentages by province, postal votes, and party/press expenditures in the 1948 and 1953 elections.