After the election, the first sitting of the legislature was postponed to allow the parties to enter into negotiations over the formation of a government.[3] At the first sitting, held on 18 June 1999, members were sworn in to their seats and re-elected Lionel Mtshali as Premier of KwaZulu-Natal.[2] He defeated the opposition candidate, the Democratic Party's Roger Burrows, with 67 votes to Burrows's eight; the ANC had withdrawn the nomination of its own candidate, Sbu Ndebele, in favour of joining a coalition with the IFP. The ANC was therefore represented in Mtshali's Executive Council.[2] The IFP's Bonga Mdletshe was re-elected as Speaker of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature, and the ANC's Willies Mchunu was re-elected as his deputy.[4]
This is a list of members of the second legislature as elected on 2 June 1999.[1] It does not take into account changes in membership after the election.