The African People's Convention is a South African political party formed by

Themba Godi Nelson Themba Godi (born 10 August 1966 in Matsavana) is a South African politician and a former member of the National Assembly. As deputy parliamentary leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania, he was suspended by PAC's president, Motso ...

, 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,

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Gauteng Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only ...

MPL Malesela Ledwaba. Godi is the current leader of the APC. The party retained its seat in the

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in the

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, 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 elections

, - ! Election ! Total votes ! Share of vote ! Seats ! +/– ! Government , - ! '' 2007
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2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

, 35,867 , 0.20% , , 1 , , - !

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

, 30,676 , 0.17% , , 0 , , - !

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

, 19,593 , 0.11% , , 1 ,

Provincial elections

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Limpopo Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. It is named after the Limpopo River, which forms the province's western and northern borders. The capital and largest city in the province is Polokwane, while the provincial legislature is ...

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Northern Cape The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi T ...

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Western Cape The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...

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, 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 , - !

, 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 , - !

, 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

Municipal elections

, - ! Election ! Votes ! % , - !

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

, 84,579 , 0.22% , - !

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...

, 58,358 , 0.19% , -

References

External links

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