6th Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature | |||||
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature | ||||
Jurisdiction | Eastern Cape, South Africa | ||||
Term | 22 May 2019 – 28 May 2024 | ||||
Election | 8 May 2019 | ||||
Government | Executive Council of Oscar Mabuyane | ||||
Members | 63 | ||||
Speaker | Helen Sauls-August | ||||
Deputy Speaker | Mlibo Qoboshiyane | ||||
Premier | Oscar Mabuyane | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | Bobby Stevenson (since 2023) | ||||
Party control | African National Congress |
This is a list of members of the sixth Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature as elected in the election of 8 May 2019 and taking into account changes in membership since the election.[1] Pursuant to the 2019 election, the African National Congress (ANC) retained its comfortable majority in the legislature, winning 44 of 63 seats. During the legislature's first sitting on 22 May 2019, Oscar Mabuyane of the ANC was elected as Premier of the Eastern Cape.
The Democratic Alliance (DA), with 10 seats, retained its status as the official opposition in the legislature. Also represented are the Economic Freedom Fighters, with five seats; the United Democratic Movement (UDM), with two seats; and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) and Freedom Front Plus (FF+) with one seat apiece. The Congress of the People and the African Independent Congress both lost their representation in the legislature, failing to win any seats in the 2019 election. The legislature dissolved on 28 May 2024, the day before the 2024 provincial election.[2]