JOHANNESBURG – Vote counting is underway in one of the most hotly-contested democratic elections.
Preliminary results will emerge on Thursday, with an official winner declared on Saturday.
There were a record 48 parties on the ballot paper — 19 more than last time around — and nearly double the number that took part in the 1994 elections.
The National Results Operations Centre in Pretoria is collating and verifying resultsfrom across the country.
About 26.8 million voters were registered to cast their ballots at 22,925 polling stations countrywide.
National results at 9am – 25.66% of voting districts completed:
ANC: 55.04%
DA: 26.04%
EFF: 8.23%
FF+: 3.21%
IFP: 1.58%
ACDP: 1.09%
Provincial results at 9am
In Gauteng, only 14 percent of voting districts have been counted. The ANC has a healthy lead at 52 percent of the votes with the DA in second at 26 percent. The EFF is third with 14 percent.
The DA has a healthy lead in the Western Cape with 57 percent of the votes and the ANC on 27 percent. Patricia de Lille’s Good party is third with 3 percent. The Western Cape has already counted 45 percent of voting districts.
In KwaZulu-Natal, the ANC is leading by a distance at 55 percent of votes. The IFP is second with 20 percent and the DA has 12 percent.
Only 10 percent of the voting districts have completed counting.
The ANC leads in all the other provinces with the EFF second in Limpopo and North West.
National Results (Top 5) | ||
PARTY ABBREVIATION | VALID VOTES | PERCENTAGE OF VOTES |
ANC | 1998700 | 55.03124091 |
DA | 942789 | 25.95829718 |
EFF | 303057 | 8.344225134 |
VF PLUS | 115369 | 3.17651435 |
IFP | 60110 | 1.655039721 |
Gauteng Results (Top 5) | ||
PARTY ABBREVIATION | VALID VOTES | PERCENTAGE OF VOTES |
ANC | 275995 | 50.14863161 |
DA | 153148 | 27.82718032 |
EFF | 75065 | 13.639403 |
VF PLUS | 22294 | 4.050847273 |
IFP | 5161 | 0.93776006 |
Western Cape Results (Top 5) | ||
PARTY ABBREVIATION | VALID VOTES | PERCENTAGE OF VOTES |
DA | 469600 | 56.67554938 |
ANC | 225885 | 27.26183235 |
GOOD | 25805 | 3.114379369 |
EFF | 25429 | 3.069000309 |
ACDP | 21294 | 2.569951338 |
KwaZulu-Natal Results (Top 5) | ||
PARTY ABBREVIATION | VALID VOTES | PERCENTAGE OF VOTES |
ANC | 157841 | 56.42680185 |
IFP | 54987 | 19.65738023 |
DA | 31823 | 11.37644918 |
EFF | 21477 | 7.67784304 |
NFP | 3997 | 1.428893171 |
Eastern Cape Results (Top 5) | ||
PARTY ABBREVIATION | VALID VOTES | PERCENTAGE OF VOTES |
ANC | 489521 | 68.10613249 |
DA | 132932 | 18.49457818 |
EFF | 48256 | 6.71376617 |
UDM | 13220 | 1.83927364 |
ATM | 9157 | 1.273996121 |
Northern Cape Results (Top 5) | ||
PARTY ABBREVIATION | VALID VOTES | PERCENTAGE OF VOTES |
ANC | 166036 | 55.65421422 |
DA | 85097 | 28.52397473 |
EFF | 24121 | 8.085206228 |
VF PLUS | 8781 | 2.943335512 |
COPE | 2994 | 1.003569812 |
Limpopo Results (Top 5) | ||
PARTY ABBREVIATION | VALID VOTES | PERCENTAGE OF VOTES |
ANC | 113484 | 74.24728158 |
EFF | 18556 | 12.14032425 |
DA | 11013 | 7.205291601 |
VF PLUS | 4456 | 2.915352708 |
NO_ABBR | 827 | 0.54106748 |
Mpumalanga Results (Top 5) | ||
PARTY ABBREVIATION | VALID VOTES | PERCENTAGE OF VOTES |
ANC | 202797 | 67.03567686 |
DA | 39278 | 12.98356147 |
EFF | 36736 | 12.14328923 |
VF PLUS | 11351 | 3.752136215 |
ACDP | 1789 | 0.591363905 |
Free State Results (Top 5) | ||
PARTY ABBREVIATION | VALID VOTES | PERCENTAGE OF VOTES |
ANC | 104531 | 61.57938144 |
DA | 31078 | 18.30810015 |
EFF | 18680 | 11.00441826 |
VF PLUS | 7350 | 4.329896907 |
COPE | 1083 | 0.637997054 |
North West Results (Top 5) | ||
PARTY ABBREVIATION | VALID VOTES | PERCENTAGE OF VOTES |
ANC | 152920 | 63.46044512 |
EFF | 39893 | 16.55524155 |
EFF | 24833 | 10.30547498 |
VF PLUS | 14080 | 5.84307525 |
UCDP | 1355 | 0.562312995 |