Over 5% of votes counted after LGE: IEC
The IEC says 12.5 million registered voters cast their ballots by 5pm on Wednesday.
The Electoral Commission (IEC) announced that over 5% of votes have been counted following the conclusion of the Local Government Elections (LGE) on Wednesday night. By 5 pm on Wednesday, a total of 12.5 million registered voters in South Africa had cast their ballots. As the results continue to pour in from various wards across the country, the African National Congress (ANC) is currently leading with 19 seats, predominantly in the Northern Cape.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has secured seven seats, with four in the Western Cape, two in the Northern Cape, and one in Sundays River Valley, located in the Eastern Cape. The Patriotic Alliance (PA) has won four seats, mostly from their strongholds in the Northern and Western Cape. ActionSA has claimed the seat of Laingsburg in the Western Cape, while uMkhonto weSizwe (MKP) has one seat, expectedly more in KwaZulu-Natal as counting proceeds.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) currently holds the sixth position nationally, but has yet to win any wards. In the Western Cape, vote counting has commenced across municipalities, with results emerging slowly. As of 2 am on Thursday, approximately 3% of voting districts had been declared, representing about 49 out of 623 voting districts that have completed counting.
Around 15 out of the 30 municipalities in the province are already showing progress in vote counting. The provincial IEC expects the provisional results to be announced on Friday.
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