General elections were held in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
on 12 June 1929. The
National Party under
J. B. M. Hertzog won an outright majority in the
House of Assembly
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Historically, in British Crown colonies as the colony gained more internal responsible g ...
. Hertzog had the opportunity to form a government without the aid of the
Labour Party. In fact the Pact government continued, with two ministers from the Creswell Labour faction remaining in office. The National Party remained the dominant party, for its second consecutive term.
Due to the split in the Labour Party, just eight MPs were elected for the party, of whom only four sat on the government benches. The leadership disputed between Colonel
Frederic Creswell (of the Creswell Labour faction) and
Walter Madeley (from the National Council Labour faction) following the split.
Delimitation of electoral divisions
The
South Africa Act 1909
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had provided for a delimitation commission to define the boundaries for each electoral division. The representation by province, under the fifth delimitation report of 1928, is set out in the table below. The figures in brackets are the number of electoral divisions in the previous (1923) delimitation. If there is no figure in brackets then the number was unchanged.
[''South Africa 1982'', p. 129]
Results
See also
*
1929 in South Africa
References
Bibliography
*''South Africa 1982: Official Yearbook of the Republic of South Africa'', published by Chris van Rensburg Publications
*''The South African Constitution'', by H.J. May (3rd edition 1955, Juta & Co)
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...