With just under 10% of the vote counted in Gauteng, the ANC was leading with over 120 000 votes, or just over 53% of the vote counted. Elections2019 SAElections2019 MzansiVotes
Pretoria - With just under 10% of the vote counted in Gauteng, South Africa's economic heartland and one of the expected battleground provinces, the ruling African National Congress was leading with over 120 000 votes, or just over 53% of the vote counted.
The next best party was the Freedom Front Plus with just under 10 000 votes, while the rest trailed in even further behind with less than a percent of the vote each. Elsewhere around the country, in the hotly contested Western Cape, the DA - the governing party in the province - was leading with 285 000 votes, followed by the ANC with just under 125 000 and the GOOD party of Patricia de Lille - the former DA mayor of Cape Town - third at 17 000 votes counted. By 06h30, the party had just over a million votes, followed by the DA with 505 550 and the EFF at 159 996.
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