Talk:South African general election, 1994

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[edit] Results table

Can a very wonderful person put these figures in a table of some sort? It looks like an earthquake hit the page! --Ryan! | Talk 21:05, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

What do the numbers in the tables mean ? Percentages ? Seats won ? Headers are needed on the top of each table, please. Thanks. -- PFHLai 19:12, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)

The percentages indicate the number of people who voted for that party for eg. 62.6% of people who voted in the 1994 elections in SA voted for the ANC. The seats are the number of seats the party holds in parliament, therefore the ANC has 252 seats which is close to the 2/3 majority.Fedi

[edit] Ballot paper

Anybody know who owns the copyright on the 1994 ballot paper? I know having a picture of a ballot paper in a wikipedia article is unusual, but this particular ballot is kinda famous in South Africa: people have it framed on their walls, it appears in History textbooks, etc.

Whoever took the picture has a copyright on the picture; I don't think ballots are copyrighted anyway, but its the photo copyright that is important. If you have the ballot itself, just take a good picture of it and you can release it under one of the licenses Wikipedia is allowed to use. It would be a great addition to this article. Recury 14:30, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I have a copy, will try take a picture sometime. Greenman 08:45, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Free election?

Surely saying "universal suffrage" is enough and more accurate that simply saying "free election" (what does "free" in this sense mean, anyway)? If "free" means people weren't forced to vote for a certain party, then all South African elections since 1910 had been free. If "free" is a way of saying "universal suffrage", then why say it, when a few lines lower down that exact phrase is already being used?leuce 20:35, 22 October 2006 (UTC)