High turnout in South African Election hailed

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Voter turnout is currently sitting at 77 percent with vote counts from 12,402 districts still outstanding, Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairwoman Brigalia Bam said today.

Briefing the media in Pretoria, Bam said votes from 7,332 voting districts had been counted by just after noon.

“We will only know the total turnout probably in another two days’ time,” she said.

There were 19,726 voting stations in South Africa and nine voting stations overseas.

More than 23 million South Africans had registered to vote in the national election.

The IEC earlier estimated that with growing voter enthusiasm the overall turnout would be about 80 percent.