| Country: | South Africa |
| Flag Year: | 1912 |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1921 South African general election |
| Previous Year: | 1921 |
| Election Date: | 17 June 1924 |
| Next Election: | 1929 South African general election |
| Next Year: | 1929 |
| Seats For Election: | All 135 seats in the House of Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 68 |
| Registered: | 413,136 |
| Turnout: | 77.23% (21.63pp) |
| Image1: | JBM Hertzog - SA (cropped).jpg |
| Leader1: | J. B. M. Hertzog |
| Party1: | National Party (South Africa) |
| Last Election1: | 38.15%, 44 seats |
| Seats1: | 63 |
| Seat Change1: | 19 |
| Popular Vote1: | 111,483 |
| Percentage1: | 35.25% |
| Swing1: | 2.90pp |
| Leader2: | Jan Smuts |
| Party2: | South African Party |
| Last Election2: | 49.92%, 77 seats |
| Seats2: | 53 |
| Seat Change2: | 24 |
| Popular Vote2: | 148,769 |
| Percentage2: | 47.04% |
| Swing2: | 2.86pp |
| Image3: | Kolonel Cresswell (cropped).jpg |
| Leader3: | Frederic Creswell |
| Party3: | Labour Party (South Africa) |
| Last Election3: | 10.68%, 10 seats |
| Seats3: | 18 |
| Seat Change3: | 8 |
| Popular Vote3: | 45,380 |
| Percentage3: | 14.35% |
| Swing3: | 3.67pp |
| Prime Minister | |
| Before Election: | Jan Smuts |
| Before Party: | South African Party |
| After Election: | J. B. M. Hertzog |
| After Party: | National Party (South Africa) |
General elections were held in South Africa on 17 June 1924,[1] electing 135 members of the House of Assembly. Considered a realigning election, rising discontent with the government of Jan Smuts led to the defeat of his government by a coalition of the pro-Afrikaner National Party and the South African Labour Party, a socialist party representing the interests of the white proletariat.[2]
Smuts had angered South African nationalists by his moderate stance on South African independence from the British Empire. The worldwide depression after the end of the First World War had led to a strike in South Africa, known as the Rand Rebellion, which had been defused through a combination of military force and negotiation with the outgunned unions, earning Smuts the enmity of the labour vote. As a consequence Smuts's SAP was defeated by a Nationalist–Labour Pact, J. B. M. Hertzog formed the government and became Prime Minister – a position he was to hold until 1939.
The South Africa Act 1909 had provided for a delimitation commission to define the boundaries for each electoral division. The representation by province, under the fourth delimitation report of 1923, is set out in the table below. The figures in brackets are the number of electoral divisions in the previous (1919) delimitation. If there is no figure in brackets then the number was unchanged.[3]