Germiston South (House of Assembly of South Africa constituency)

Germiston South
Germiston-Suid
Former constituency for the South African House of Assembly
Province	Transvaal
Electorate	7,984 (1938)
Former constituency
Created	1938
Abolished	1943
Number of members	1
Last MHA	J. G. N. Strauss (UP)
Created from	Germiston
Replaced by	Germiston Germiston District

Germiston South (Afrikaans: Germiston-Suid) was a short-lived constituency in the Transvaal Province of South Africa, which existed only for the 1938 general election. It covered a part of the East Rand centred on the southern part of Germiston. It elected one member to the House of Assembly and one to the Transvaal Provincial Council.

Franchise notes

When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the electoral qualifications in use in each pre-existing colony were kept in place. In the Transvaal Colony, and its predecessor the South African Republic, the vote was restricted to white men, and as such, elections in the Transvaal Province were held on a whites-only franchise from the beginning. The franchise was also restricted by property and education qualifications until the 1933 general election, following the passage of the Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930 and the Franchise Laws Amendment Act, 1931. From then on, the franchise was given to all white citizens aged 21 or over. Non-whites remained disenfranchised until the end of apartheid and the introduction of universal suffrage in 1994. ^[1]

History

Germiston North was only contested once, in 1938, when it was held by the United Party's J. G. N. Strauss over a divided field. In 1943, Germiston was reconfigured into a "town" and a District seat, and Strauss stood for and won election in Germiston District.^{[ citation needed ]}

Members

Election		Member	Party
	1938	J. G. N. Strauss	United
	1943	Constituency abolished

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Detailed results

Elections in the 1930s

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1938 South African general election § Germiston South.[ edit ]

General election 1938: Germiston South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United	J. G. N. Strauss	3,705	58.1	New
	Purified National	J. H. Boneschans	1,823	28.6	New
	Labour	W. T. Lever	790	12.4	New
Rejected ballots			57	0.9	N/A
Majority			1,882	29.5	N/A
Turnout			6,375	79.8	N/A
	United win (new seat)

References

1. "EISA South Africa: Historical franchise arrangements". Eisa.org.za. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
2. Schoeman, B.M. (1977). Parlementêre verkiesings in Suid-Afrika 1910-1976. Pretoria: Aktuele Publikasies.
3. Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa (1972). "House of Assembly" (vol. 5, pp. 617–636). Cape Town: Nasionale Opvoedkundige Uitgewery (Nasou).