North East Rand (House of Assembly of South Africa constituency)

North East Rand
Nordoos-Rand
Former constituency for the South African House of Assembly
Province	Transvaal
Electorate	10,176 (1958)
Former constituency
Created	1924 1938 1958
Abolished	1933 1953 1966
Number of members	1
Last MHA	H. J. Bronkhorst (UP)
Replaced by	North Rand (1966)

North East Rand (Afrikaans: Nordoos-Rand) was a constituency in the Transvaal Province of South Africa, which existed in three periods between 1924 and 1966. As the name implies, it covered the northeastern parts of the Witwatersrand conurbation. Throughout its existence 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

As an outer suburban seat, North East Rand tended to alternate between the main political tendencies in South Africa. In its first two iterations, it was a marginal seat that leaned toward the National Party - the NP won every election, but usually by narrow margins. Its first MP, Hjalmar Reitz, moved to nearby Brits on that seat's creation in 1929, and Carel Stephanus Hendrik Potgieter held the seat for the NP until its abolition in 1933. Its recreation in 1948 coincided with the Herenigde Nasionale Party's nationwide victory, and they captured North East Rand as well, although again only narrowly. In its second iteration the seat only existed for a single term, but in 1958 it was recreated again. This time, it was a safe seat for the opposition United Party, which took it by a wide margin in 1958 and held it unopposed until its final abolition in 1966. Hendrik Johannes Bronkhorst, its final MP, moved to the North Rand seat on North East Rand's abolition.

Members

Election		Member	Party
	1924	Hjalmar Reitz	National
	1929	C. S. H. Potgieter
	1933	Constituency abolished

Election		Member	Party
	1948	A. J. B. Deysel	National
	1953	Constituency abolished

Election		Member	Party
	1958	A. I. D. Brown	United
	1960 by	H. J. Bronkhorst
	1961
	1966	Constituency abolished

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Detailed results

Elections in the 1920s

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1924 South African general election § North East Rand.[ edit ]

General election 1924: North East Rand

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Hjalmar Reitz	1,203	53.8	New
	South African	H. J. Hofmeyr	1,027	45.9	New
Rejected ballots			8	0.3	N/A
Majority			176	7.9	N/A
Turnout			2,238	81.3	N/A
	National win (new seat)

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1929 South African general election § North East Rand.[ edit ]

General election 1929: North East Rand

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	C. S. H. Potgieter	1,095	51.2	−2.6
	South African	G. J. Stoop	880	41.1	−4.8
	Labour (N.C.)	H. E. W. C. Barrett	140	6.5	New
Rejected ballots			25	1.2	+0.9
Majority			176	10.1	+2.2
Turnout			2,140	78.5	−2.8
	National hold		Swing	+1.1

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).