This data set contains responses of South African legible voters in the 2004 national and provincial assembly elections aged 18 years and older. All 200 selected voting stations were visited on election day. The number of voters interviewed was 14 227 and the data set contains 26 variables. The questionnaire questions included the distance traveled to the voting station, means of transport utilised, time spent in the voting queue, perception of IEC officials' competence, and perception of the freeness and fairness of the election.