| Election Name: | 1999 South African general election |
| Country: | South Africa |
| Flag Year: | 1994 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1994 South African general election |
| Previous Year: | 1994 |
| Outgoing Members: | List of National Assembly members of the 22nd Parliament of South Africa |
| Election Date: | 2 June 1999 |
| Next Election: | 2004 South African general election |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
| Elected Members: | List of National Assembly members of the 23rd Parliament of South Africa |
| Seats For Election: | All 400 seats in the National Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 201 |
| Registered: | 18,172,751 |
| Turnout: | 89.30% (2.43pp) |
| Leader1: | Thabo Mbeki |
| Party1: | African National Congress |
| Last Election1: | 62.65%, 252 seats |
| Seats1: | 266 |
| Seat Change1: | 14 |
| Popular Vote1: | 10,601,330 |
| Percentage1: | 66.35% |
| Swing1: | 3.70pp |
| Leader2: | Tony Leon |
| Party2: | DP |
| Last Election2: | 1.73%, 7 seats |
| Seats2: | 38 |
| Seat Change2: | 31 |
| Popular Vote2: | 1,527,337 |
| Percentage2: | 9.56% |
| Swing2: | 7.83pp |
| Leader3: | Mangosuthu Buthelezi |
| Party3: | Inkatha Freedom Party |
| Last Election3: | 10.54%, 43 seats |
| Seats3: | 34 |
| Seat Change3: | 9 |
| Popular Vote3: | 1,371,477 |
| Percentage3: | 8.58% |
| Swing3: | 1.96pp |
| Leader4: | Marthinus van Schalkwyk |
| Party4: | New National Party (South Africa) |
| Last Election4: | 20.39%, 82 seats |
| Seats4: | 28 |
| Seat Change4: | 54 |
| Popular Vote4: | 1,098,215 |
| Percentage4: | 6.87% |
| Swing4: | 13.52pp |
| Leader5: | Bantu Holomisa |
| Party5: | United Democratic Movement |
| Last Election5: | Did not exist |
| Seats5: | 14 |
| Seat Change5: | New party |
| Popular Vote5: | 546,790 |
| Percentage5: | 3.42% |
| Swing5: | New party |
| Leader6: | Kenneth Meshoe |
| Party6: | African Christian Democratic Party |
| Last Election6: | 0.45%, 2 seats |
| Seats6: | 6 |
| Seat Change6: | 4 |
| Popular Vote6: | 228,975 |
| Percentage6: | 1.43% |
| Swing6: | 0.98pp |
| Map Size: | 390px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Nelson Mandela |
| Before Party: | African National Congress |
| After Election: | Thabo Mbeki |
| After Party: | African National Congress |
General elections were held in South Africa on 2 June 1999. The result was a landslide victory for the governing African National Congress (ANC), which gained fourteen seats. Incumbent president Nelson Mandela declined to seek re-election as president on grounds of his age. This election was notable for the sharp decline of the New National Party, previously the National Party (NP), which without former State President F. W. de Klerk lost more than half of their former support base. The liberal Democratic Party became the largest opposition party, after being the fifth largest party in the previous elections in 1994. The number of parties represented in the National Assembly increased to thirteen, with the United Democratic Movement, jointly headed by former National Party member Roelf Meyer, and former ANC member Bantu Holomisa, being the most successful of the newcomers with fourteen seats.
| Party | EC | FS | G | KZN | M | NW | NC | NP | WC | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | African National Congress | 47 | 25 | 50 | 32 | 26 | 27 | 20 | 44 | 18 | |
| bgcolor= | New National Party | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 17 | |
| bgcolor= | Inkatha Freedom Party | 0 | 0 | 3 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| bgcolor= | Democratic Party | 4 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| bgcolor= | United Democratic Movement | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| bgcolor= | Freedom Front | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| bgcolor= | African Christian Democratic Party | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| bgcolor= | United Christian Democratic Party | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 3 | – | – | – | |
| bgcolor= | Minority Front | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | |
| bgcolor= | Pan Africanist Congress of Azania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Federal Alliance | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 63 | 30 | 73 | 80 | 30 | 33 | 30 | 49 | 42 | ||
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) consists of 90 members, ten elected by each provincial legislature. The Members of NCOP have to be elected in proportion to the party membership of the provincial legislature.
| Party | Delegate type | EC | FS | G | KZN | M | NW | NC | NP | WC | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= rowspan=2 | align=left rowspan=2 | African National Congress | Permanent | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 34 | 63 | |
| Special | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 29 | |||||
| bgcolor= rowspan=2 | align=left rowspan=2 | New National Party | Permanent | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | |||||
| Special | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| bgcolor= rowspan=2 | align=left rowspan=2 | Democratic Party | Permanent | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | |||
| Special | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| bgcolor= rowspan=2 | align=left rowspan=2 | Inkatha Freedom Party | Permanent | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
| Special | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| bgcolor= rowspan=2 | align=left rowspan=2 | United Democratic Movement | Permanent | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| Special | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| bgcolor= | African Christian Democratic Party | Permanent | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| bgcolor= | United Christian Democratic Party | Permanent | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 90 | |||||
| align=left colspan=14 | Source: South Africa Survey 2002/03[1] | ||||||||||||||
Thabo Mbeki was elected president (unopposed) by the new Assembly on 14 June 1999, succeeding Nelson Mandela.[2]