South African general election, 1924

South African general election, 1924

← 1921 19 June 1924 (1924-06-19) 1929 →
All 135 seats in the House of Assembly 68 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader J. B. M. Hertzog Jan Smuts F. H. P. Creswell Party National Party South African Labour Last election 44 seats 79 seats 9 seats Seats won 63 53 18 Seat change 19 26 9 Popular vote 111,483 148,769 45,380 Percentage 35.25% 47.05% 14.35% Swing -1.58% -1.12% +0.53%
House of Assembly after the election
Prime Minister before election Jan Smuts South African Elected Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog National Party

Jan Smuts
South African

J. B. M. Hertzog
National Party

The 1924 South African general election was a realigning election in the Union of South Africa's House of Assembly held on 19 June 1924 to elect 135 members. 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.

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, James 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.