Throughout its existence it elected one member to the House of Assembly and one to the Transvaal Provincial Council.

When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the electoral qualifications in use in each pre-existing colony were kept in place.

Non-whites remained disenfranchised until the end of apartheid and the introduction of universal suffrage in 1994.

[1] As a largely working-class seat, Jeppes was an early stronghold of the South African Labour Party.

The National MP elected in 1977, Koos van der Merwe, defected to the Conservative Party on its foundation in 1982, but moved to the Overvaal constituency in 1987.