Editing Freedom Front Plus (section)

==== 2019 national and provincial elections ====
FF Plus voter support increased substantially in the [[2019 South African general election|2019 general election]], with the party growing its vote total by 250,000, to 2.38% of the national vote, earning ten seats in the National Assembly. This was more than the nine seats that the old Freedom Front had received in 1994. Additionally, it gained eight seats in the provincial legislatures, for a total of eleven. In the 2014 general election, the FF Plus won seats in three provincial legislatures, in 2019, it won seats in eight out of the nine provincial legislatures. Its new supporters were largely Afrikaners and [[Coloureds|Coloured]] voters from the [[Western Cape]] who had previously supported the DA.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brandt|first1=Kevin|date=10 May 2019|title=Targeting minorities helped grow our support - FF Plus|newspaper=EWN|url=https://ewn.co.za/2019/05/10/ff-plus-believes-it-gained-support-in-nc-by-targeting-minorities|access-date=26 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Mailovich|first1=Claudi|date=9 May 2019|title=FF Plus defies expectations|newspaper=BusinessLIVE|url=https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2019-05-09-ff-plus-on-track-to-being-biggest-success-story-of-election-2019/|access-date=26 January 2020}}</ref>

Following the [[2019 South African general election|2019 general election]], the FF Plus won three wards from the [[Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|Democratic Alliance]] (DA) in municipal by-elections in the [[North West (South African province)|North West]] Province and continued to show growth in various other municipal by-elections in [[Gauteng]], [[Limpopo]] and [[Mpumalanga]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sussman |first1=Wayne |title=FF+ makes loud statement in Stilfontein |url=https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-07-11-ff-makes-loud-statement-in-stilfontein/ |access-date=26 January 2020 |newspaper=The Daily Maverick |date=11 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Joubert |first1=Jan-Jan |title=Recent municipal ward by-elections result in losses for the DA |url=https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/municipal-ward-by-elections-losses-for-the-da/ |access-date=26 January 2020 |newspaper=The Daily Maverick |date=19 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Mamusa by-election: Good news for EFF, but DA slide against FF+ continues |url=https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/elections/2229204/mamusa-by-election-good-news-for-eff-but-da-slide-against-ff-continues/ |access-date=26 January 2020 |newspaper=The Citizen |date=16 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Head |first1=Tom |title=Schweizer-Reneke: DA disaster, as they lose third ward in six months to FF Plus |url=https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/schweizer-reneke-by-election-results-da-ff-plus-support/ |access-date=26 January 2020 |newspaper=The South African |date=16 January 2020}}</ref>