title: Ryno King
text: # Ryno King
  
  Ryno Johannes King (born 26 August 1947) is a South African politician who served the Western Cape in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2009. Before that, he served in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. He was a member of the New National Party (NNP) until March 2003, when he crossed the floor to the Democratic Alliance (DA).
  
  ## Legislative career
  
  King was elected to an NNP seat in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament in 1999 and served as the party's chief whip in the legislature for part of the legislative term that followed. During the floor-crossing window of March 2003, he joined Alta Rossouw and Gerhard van Rensburg in defecting from the NNP to the DA.
  
  In the 2004 general election, King was elected to the National Assembly under the DA's banner. He represented the Western Cape constituency and was the DA's spokesperson on rural safety. He did not stand for re-election in 2009.
  
  