Plaaslike Besorgde Inwoners
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Plaaslike Besorgde Inwoners (Concerned Local Residents) is a minor political party based in George, South Africa.
The party focuses on corruption, and contested the 2016 municipal elections, earning 3.3% of the proportional representation vote in the George area, and earning two seats in the George Local Municipality. In 2021, the party increased this to 10% and five seats, and also won a seat in the Knysna Local Municipality.{{Cite web |date=2021-11-03 |title=Western Cape has 15 hung councils |url=https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/western-cape-has-15-hung-councils/ |access-date=2021-11-14 |website=SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader. |language=en-US}}
In January 2018, party leader Virgil Gericke called for the George Local Municipality to be placed under administration following infighting within the governing Democratic Alliance and that party's failure to elect replacement councillors following the dismissal of the council's Speaker, Chief Whip and four councillors by Local Government Minister, Anton Bredell.{{Cite web |url=https://nari.co.za/d.php?fid=2165 |title=Opposition parties at George in the Southern Cape are calling for the local municipality to be place...... |website=NARI |access-date=2019-05-05 |archive-date=24 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524051105/https://nari.co.za/d.php?fid=2165 |url-status=dead }}
The party contested the 2019 South African general election at provincial level in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape only, failing to win a seat.
Election results
=Provincial elections=
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! rowspan=2 | Election{{Cite web |url=https://www.elections.org.za/NPEDashboard/app/dashboard.html |title=Results Dashboard| website=www.elections.org.za |access-date=2019-05-11}}
! 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
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! % !! Seats
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! 2019
| 0.03% || 0/63
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| 0.19% || 0/42
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=Municipal elections=
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! Election
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! %
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! 2011{{cite web | url=https://results.elections.org.za/home/LGEPublicReports/197/Detailed%20Results/National.pdf | title=2011 Results Summary - All Ballots | publisher=elections.org.za | access-date=15 November 2021}}
| 3,241
| 0.01%
| 1
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! 2016{{cite web | url=http://www.elections.org.za/content/LGEPublicReports/402/Detailed%20Results/National.pdf | title=2016 Results Summary - All Ballots | publisher=elections.org.za | access-date=11 August 2016}}
| 7,583
| 0.02%
| 2
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! 2021{{cite web | url=https://results.elections.org.za/home/LGEPublicReports/1091/Detailed%20Results/National.pdf | title=2021 Results Summary - All Ballots | publisher=elections.org.za | access-date=11 August 2016}}{{Cite web |title=News24 |url=https://www.news24.com/news24/elections/map/lge |access-date=2021-11-14 |website=News24 |language=en-US}}
| 19,563
| 0.06%
| 6
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