Final South African Election Votes Tally Emerging
24 Apr
EArlier this afternoon, the count reached the 16 million mark, totalling 16,025,818 shortly before 5pm. The number was registered voters is 23,282,997.
This indicated that the IEC was 70 percent of the way through processing the results.
The ANC remained in pole position with 10,479,367 votes (66.29) followed by the Democratic Alliance with 1,184,456 votes (16.21 percent).
Cope failed to make good on its assertion that it had severely dented the ANC’s grip on the Eastern Cape, by trailing far behind the ruling party’s 1,609,926 (69.70 percent) votes with its 307,437 votes (13.31 percent).
It had, however, dislodged the DA’s position as chief opposition in that province, with the DA receiving 230,187 votes (9.97 percent).
The battle for the Western Cape is all but won by Helen Zille’s DA, which received 788,008 votes (50.38 percent).
The ANC is in the second position with 481,998 votes (30.81 percent), followed by Cope’s 138,819 votes.
Nationally, the Inkatha Freedom Party was in fourth position with 703,885 votes (4.45 percent), followed by the ID with 146,919 votes (0.093 percent).
