African People's Convention

African People's Convention
African People's Convention
Abbreviation	APC
President	Themba Godi
Founder	Themba Godi
Founded	5 September 2007
Split from	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
Headquarters	4th Floor, Dr. Neil Aggett House, 90 President Street, Johannesburg 2001
Student wing	APCYL
Ideology	Socialism; Pan-Africanism; African nationalism
Political position	Left-wing
Slogan	The Alternative Voice
National Assembly seats	0 / 400
Website
	www.theapc.org.za
	Politics of South Africa; Political parties; Elections;

The African People's Convention (APC) is a South African political party formed by Themba Godi, former deputy leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) via floor-crossing legislation, on 4 September 2007. Godi defected along with the PAC's only two provincial representatives, Eastern Cape MPL Zingisa Mkabile and Gauteng MPL Malesela Ledwaba.^[1] Godi is the current leader of the APC. The party retained its seat in the National Assembly in the 2009 elections, although it lost both of its representatives in the provincial legislatures of Gauteng and Eastern Cape.

It retained its seat in the 2014 election, but lost it in the 2019 election.

Like the PAC, the party's ideology officially appeals to "Africanists, Pan Africanists and socialists".

Election results

National Assembly elections


Election	Party leader	Total votes	Share of vote	Seats	+/–	Government
2007 Floor-crossing	Themba Godi	—	—	2 / 400	New	Opposition
2009		35,867	0.20%	1 / 400	1	Opposition
2014		30,676	0.17%	1 / 400	0	Opposition
2019		19,593	0.11%	0 / 400	1	Extra-parliamentary
2024		13,195	0.08%^[a]	0 / 400	0	Extra-parliamentary

^ From 2024, seats in the National Assembly are determined by a combination of the national ballot, and the nine regional ballots. Only the national ballot figures are shown here.

Provincial elections


Election^[2]	Eastern Cape		Free State		Gauteng		Kwazulu-Natal		Limpopo		Mpumalanga		North-West		Northern Cape		Western Cape
Election^[2]	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats
2009	0.20	0/63	0.31	0/30	0.12	0/73	0.15	0/80	0.30	0/49	0.37	0/30	0.29	0/33	0.34	0/30	0.09	0/42
2014	0.23	0/63	0.32	0/30	0.16	0/73	0.18	0/80	0.35	0/49	0.44	0/30	0.40	0/33	0.28	0/30	0.06	0/42
2019	0.13	0/63	0.15	0/30	0.07	0/73	0.10	0/80	0.36	0/49	0.34	0/30	0.13	0/33	0.15	0/30	0.04	0/42
2024^[3]	0.10	0/73	0.08	0/30	0.06	0/80			0.19	0/64	0.31	0/51	0.08	0/38

Municipal elections


Election	Votes	%
2016^[4]	84,579	0.22%
2021^[5]	58,358	0.19%

References

^ Jacques Keet (4 September 2007). "Godi leaves PAC for African People's Convention". The M&G Online.
^ "Results Dashboard". www.elections.org.za. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
^ "NPE Results Dashboard 2024". results.elections.org.za. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
^ "Results Summary - All Ballots" (PDF). elections.org.za. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
^ "Local Government Elections 2021 Results Summary - All Ballots" (PDF). elections.org.za. Retrieved 12 February 2022.

External links

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[2] From 2024, seats in the National Assembly are determined by a combination of the national ballot, and the nine regional ballots. Only the national ballot figures are shown here.

[1] Jacques Keet (4 September 2007). "Godi leaves PAC for African People's Convention". The M&G Online.

[dash-3] "Results Dashboard". www.elections.org.za. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

[4] "NPE Results Dashboard 2024". results.elections.org.za. Retrieved 11 June 2024.

[iec_summary-5] "Results Summary - All Ballots" (PDF). elections.org.za. Retrieved 11 August 2016.

[iec_summary_2021-6] "Local Government Elections 2021 Results Summary - All Ballots" (PDF). elections.org.za. Retrieved 12 February 2022.

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