Andrew Grant Whitfield has been the Shadow Minister of Police and a Member of the National Assembly for the Democratic Alliance since 2016. Having served as the provincial chairman of the DA in the Eastern Cape from 2017 to 2023, he is currently the provincial leader of the party and the leader of the party’s Tsitsi-Kouga Constituency. Whitfield has previously served on the Nelson Mandela Bay city council and in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature.
Whitfield joined the DA and was elected to the Nelson Mandela Bay city council in 2011. After the general election in May 2014, he was sworn in as a Member of the National Assembly. The following month, he was assigned to the Portfolio Committee on Tourism.
After the 2016 municipal elections, Whitfield returned to the Nelson Mandela Bay council as the DA became the largest party. On 6 May 2017, Whitfield was elected as the provincial chairperson of the DA in the Eastern Cape.
In June 2018, the DA redeployed Whitfield to the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature; he was sworn in as an MPL on 28 June 2018. He returned to the National Assembly following the May 2019 general election. In June 2019, he was appointed as Shadow Minister of Police and as the leader of the DA’s Tsitsi-Kouga Constituency.
In August 2020, he was re-elected unopposed as provincial chairperson of the DA. Whitfield remained in his post as shadow police minister in John Steenhuisen’s Shadow Cabinet.
On 1 September 2022, Whitfield was appointed a DA whip in the National Assembly. He was elected provincial leader on 25 February at the party’s conference in Graaff-Reinet.