LIVE Election Results: ANC approaches 57% as over 50% of votes counted Elections2019
The IEC Result Centre situated at the Pretoria Showgrounds is ready before the elections taking place on the 8th of May, 7 April 2019, Pretoria. Picture: Jacques Nelles
May 8 was inundated with reports of irregularities, namely the easily removable indelible ink that has been used as a safeguard over the years to prevent voters from voting more than once. The IEC said the pens were procured through an open tender process and the tender to provide the pens was awarded to a company called Litotec.
The EFF has seen some growth in both provinces, but is particularly making a showing in Mpumalanga, where the Red Berets may replace the DA as the official opposition to the ANC.By 11.10am on Thursday, South Africa’s African National Congress seemed destined to retain its majority hold on the National Assembly after voting tallies at about a third of voting districts in the country had been captured on the Electoral Commission of South Africa results system.
Early indications are that the Economic Freedom Fighters will see an increase in its support from the six percent it obtained in 2014, with currently more than 8.6% of the vote. The votes counted and captured stood at around three million, with the ANC obtaining 55 percent of the vote, followed by the Democratic Alliance with 26 percent. If the trend continues throughout the day, this would mean the ANC would see its significant majority reduced and support for the DA increasing by a few percentage points from 22 percent of the vote in the 2014 polls to over 26 percent.
By 6:30am on Thursday, the main challengers, the Democratic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters had tallied just under 60,000 and just over 30,000 votes, respectively. Early results captured on the Electoral Commission of SA system, show the ANC leading in Mpumalanga where around 20 percent of votes cast had been counted. By 7am, the ruling party was leading with 186,453 votes, followed by the Democratic Alliance with 25,603 and the Economic Freedom Fighters wih 22,708.
The DA is the official opposition in the province but a resurgent IFP is putting up a solid push for the title of official opposition which it lost to the DA in the 2014 general election. By 07h30, the ANC was ahead in all three provinces, capturing 64,493 votes in the Free State, 103,023 in North West and 99,660 in the Northern Cape.
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