While South Africa has registered around 1 million more voters for the 2024 elections, there are millions more who are eligible but opting to sit it out.
On May 29th, South Africa will see its seventh democratic general election – however, given a consistent decline in eligible people voting, a major talking point is whether voters will actually show up in their numbers to make their mark at the polls.The voters roll has continued to grow across elections, with 26.757 million registered to vote in 2019, and preliminary data from the Electoral Commission showing that there are a record-high 27.73 million registered voters for 2024.
However, using data sourced from Stats SA on the growth of this particular age group between 2018 and 2022 and projecting this forward, Van Onselen determined an estimated VAP of 41.4 million people in 2024. “If the 14 million unregistered voters in South Africa today decided to register and vote for one party or person in 2024, they would collectively have the power to unseat the largest political party,” said Dooms.In the last twenty years, there has been a significant decline in voter turnout percentages across all provinces, dropping by 20% to just over 30%, depending on the province.
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