Pretoria City (House of Assembly of South Africa constituency)

Pretoria City
Pretoria-Stad
Former constituency for the South African House of Assembly
Province	Transvaal
Electorate	11,003 (1953)
Former constituency
Created	1938
Abolished	1958
Number of members	1
Last MHA	J. H. Visse (NP)
Created from	Pretoria Central
Replaced by	Prinshof

Pretoria City (Afrikaans: Pretoria-Stad) was a constituency in the Transvaal Province of South Africa, which existed from 1938 to 1958. It covered parts of the city centre of Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. 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

Pretoria City was a relatively short-lived seat, existing only for twenty years, and confusingly coexisted for that entire period with Pretoria Central - the two seats covering different parts of Pretoria's inner city. Like the rest of Pretoria, the seat initially favoured the United Party, but fell in 1953 to the governing National Party, whose MP, Jan Hendrik Visse, moved to the newly-created seat of Prinshof on Pretoria City's abolition.^{[ citation needed ]}

Members

Election		Member	Party
	1938	A. E. Campbell	United
	1939 by	Adolf Davis
	1943
	1948
	1953	J. H. Visse	National
	1958	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 § Pretoria City.[ edit ]

General election 1938: Pretoria City

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United	A. E. Campbell	2,937	58.4	New
	Purified National	D. J. G. van den Heever	1,467	29.2	New
	Labour	M. Retief	586	11.7	New
Rejected ballots			40	0.7	N/A
Majority			1,470	29.2	N/A
Turnout			5,030	90.6	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).