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Logo of the National Party during the 1990s Share of National Party votes in 1994. The areas which voted for the National Party were largely Afrikaans- or English speaking Flag of the National Party during the 1990s. The National Party won 20.39% of the vote and 82 seats in the National Assembly at the first multiracial election in 1994.
The Afrikaner Party (AP) was a South African political party from 1941 to 1951. Origins ... (Purified National Party) to form the Herenigde Nasionale Party ...
Afrikaner Party Afrikaans: Afrikanerparty: AP 1941 1951 Afrikaner nationalism Conservatism: Dominion Party Afrikaans: Dominiumparty: DP 1934 1948 Conservatism Monarchism: Herenigde Nasionale Party English: Reunited National Party: HNP 1940 1948 Afrikaner nationalism Social conservatism: Labour Party Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Arbeidersparty: LP ...
In 1914, the National Party was founded to promote Afrikaner interests. [8] It gained power by winning South Africa's 1948 general elections . [ 20 ] The party was noted for implementing a harsh policy of racial segregation ( apartheid ) and declaring South Africa a republic in 1961. [ 8 ]
The Afrikaner nationalist intelligentsia, along with the National Party and the Broederbond, ended up formulating a radical nationalistic policy which rejected British hegemony in economics and politics as well as ethnic mengelmoes ("mess") induced by the transportation of black migrant workers around the country. They proposed as a solution ...
The 1948 general election brought to power the Afrikaner nationalist National Party, which would not be voted out for the next 46 years. The party had campaigned on a platform of apartheid, an explicit policy of institutionalised racial segregation.
This was to the benefit of the National Party since it tended to do well in rural areas in terms of votes. Despite winning 140,000 fewer votes than the UP, the NP/AP coalition gained a plurality of seats in Parliament, and was able to enter into a coalition with the Afrikaner Party to form a majority government.
This Afrikaner-focused political party has representation in the national Parliament as well as several Provincial legislatures in South Africa. Support for this party however decreased to just under 140,000 votes, being less than 1% of the total votes cast (approximately 20% among registered Afrikaner voters) by the 2004 national elections .