In the 2014 polls, the party managed to get 70,823 votes.
The Economic Freedom Fighters in KwaZulu-Natal reached over 319,350 votes by 5.30pm on Friday, with five percent of the provincial vote still to be counted, following Wednesday’s elections.
Former firebrand ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema established the party, which sits far-left on the political spectrum, in 2013. The ANC, which has governed KwaZulu-Natal since knocking the Inkatha Freedom Party from its throne in 2004, was siting on 1,777,378 votes .
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