National People's Front | |
Founder: | Bheki Gumbi |
Leader1 Title: | Bheki Gumbi |
Founded: | 2018 |
Ideology: | African nationalism |
Seats1 Title: | National Assembly seats |
Seats2 Title: | Provincial Legislatures |
Country: | South Africa |
The National People's Front (NAPF) is a South African political party formed in 2018 by Bheki Gumbi, former national deputy chairperson of the National Freedom Party (NFP).
The party is campaigning on a platform of fast-forwarding land expropriation, strong borders, priority for South Africans over foreign nationals, and on abolishing "Roman laws".[1]
The party contested the 2019 general election, failing to win any seats.
Gumbi won a seat in the 2021 local government election in Nongoma after the party finished with just under 1% of the vote, earning a single list seat. Gumbi briefly held the balance of power in the council after the defeat of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) candidate in a ward 20 by-election, leaving the council split between 22 seats for the IFP/Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) coalition, and 22 seats for the NFP/African National Congress (ANC) coalition.[2] The EFF later threw its weight behind the NFP/ANC.[3]
|-! Election! Total votes! Share of vote! Seats ! +/–! Government|-! 2019| 4,019| 0.02%| | –| |}
! rowspan=2 | Election[4] ! colspan=2 | Eastern Cape! colspan=2 | Free State! colspan=2 | Gauteng! colspan=2 | Kwazulu-Natal! colspan=2 | Limpopo! colspan=2 | Mpumalanga! colspan=2 | North-West! colspan=2 | Northern Cape! colspan=2 | Western Cape|-! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats! % !! Seats|-! 2019| - || -| - || -| 0.03% || 0/73| 0.07% || 0/80| - || -| - || -| - || -| - || -| - || -|}