The third Gauteng Provincial Legislature was elected in the election of 14 April 2004. In that election, the African National Congress (ANC) retained its majority in the legislature, winning 51 of 73 seats. In its first sitting on 26 April 2004, the legislature re-elected Mbhazima Shilowa as Premier of Gauteng. It also elected Richard Mdakane as Speaker and Mary Metcalfe as Deputy Speaker.

The Democratic Alliance, with 15 seats, was the official opposition in the legislature. Also represented in the legislature were the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), the Freedom Front Plus (FF+), the Independent Democrats (ID), the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), and the United Democratic Movement (UDM). For the first time since the legislature was established in 1994, the New National Party was not represented.

Metcalfe resigned from the legislature in 2005 and was replaced as Deputy Speaker by Sophia Williams-De Bruyn. Moreover, in 2008, Shilowa resigned as Premier and Paul Mashatile was elected to replace him.

Composition

|-style="background:#e9e9e9;" !colspan="2" style="text-align:left"| Party !! style="text-align:center"| Seats |- | || 51 |- | || 15 |- | || 2 |- | || 1 |- | || 1 |- | || 1 |- | || 1 |- | || 1 |- |colspan="2" style="text-align:left"| Total || style="text-align:right"| 73

Members The table below lists the members elected to the provincial legislature in the April 2004 election; it does not take into account changes in membership after the election. MemberPartyLydia MeshoeACDPPamotanji Johannes BokabaANCFiroz CachaliaANCMotlalepula ChabakuANCBarbara Creecy ANCSam de BeerANCBuyisiwe Regina DhladhlaANCIgnatius Jacobs ANCTrevor FowlerANCMondli GungubeleANCRefilwe Sophia LetwabaANCBob MabasoANCNomopo Maggie MadlalaANCErrol MagermanANCQedani MahlanguANCSipho John MakamaANCPule Isaac MalefaneANCLindiwe Maseko ANCPaul Mashatile ANCFaith MazibukoANCValentine MbathaANCRichard Mdakane ANCMary Metcalfe ANCAngelina Mmatlou MoengANCJacqueline MofokengANCAnnah Refilwe MogaleANCMoabi Daniel MohapiANCUhuru MoiloaANCNomvula Mokonyane ANCKhabisi MosunkutuANCAngie Motshekga ANCMathole MotshekgaANCCetshwayo Amon MsaneANCSamson Bengeza MthombeniANCRefiloe Nosipho NdzutaANCSteward NgwenyaANCMandla NkomfeANCBekizwe NkosiANCHope PapoANCNomalizo Joyce PekaneANCMbongeni RadebeANCNomantu RalehokoANCGwen Ramokgopa ANCRam SalojeeANCMichael Homotsang SeloaneANCDoreen SenkoanyaneANCSicelo ShicekaANCMbhazima Shilowa ANCNokuthula SikakaneANCElliot Mshiyeni SogoniANCDikeledi TsotetsiANCGodfrey TsotetsiANCJack BloomDAPhilippus Bernardus de WetDABrian Goodall DARose Esther GudlhuzaDAHermene Koorts DAHendrika Johanna Lodiwika KrugerDAPatricia Betty MokgohlwaDAJohn MoodeyDACornelia Margaritha Elizabeth PlüddemannDAChabeli Salmon NkhiDADavid QuailDAGlenda Jane SteynDAJames Martin SwartDAPaul Samuel Robert WillemburgDAFrederik Gerhardus Andreas WolmaransDAJaco Mulder FF+Themba SonoIDGertrude Mzizi IFPSibongile NkomoIFPMalesela Ledwaba PACNomakhosazana MncedaneUDM Members who joined the legislature during the term included: Joachim Boers (ANC) Sophia Williams-De Bruyn (ANC) Brian Hlongwa (ANC) Kgaogelo Lekgoro (ANC)

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