Election Results: 24 percent of votes counted, DA crosses 1 million vote threshold

As of 10:52 on Tuesday, 2 November, the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) Results Operation Centre in Tshwane, Gauteng has received the results of 24 percent of the votes cast in the 2021 Local Government Elections (LGE). Here’s an overview of the leading parties, according to the IEC Municipal election results dashboard.

2021 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS RESULTS TRICKLE IN

According to the IEC’s Municipal Election Results Dashboard, 24 percent of the votes have been counted:

5642 of 23148 Voting Districts completed

589 of 4468 Wards completed

12 of 213 Municipalities completed

652 of 8794 Seats allocated

NATIONAL (24% complete)

1. ANC – 46% | 2 043 805 votes | 8 councils | 423 seats
2. DA – 24,96% | 1 108 959 votes | 3 councils | 165 seats
3. Other Parties – 9,84% | 446 136 votes | 0 councils | 10 seats

PROVINCIAL

Eastern Cape (31% complete)

1. ANC – 66,17% | 522 183 votes | 0 councils | 75 seats
2.  DA – 15,91%  | 125 553 votes | 0 councils | 21 seats
3. EFF – 7,14  | 56 349 votes | 0 councils | 1 seats

Free State (34% complete)

1. ANC – 52,91% | 174 235 votes |1 councils | 52 seats
2. DA – 18,57% | 61 167 votes | 0 councils | 4 seats
3. EFF – 11,6% | 38 209 votes | 0 councils | 1 seats

Gauteng (18% complete)

1. ANC – 35,68% | 235 488 votes|1 councils | 28 seats
2. DA – 32,6% | 215 185 votes | 0 councils | 13 seats
3. EFF – 12,15% | 80 206 votes | 0 councils | 4 seats

KZN (12% complete)

1. ANC – 42,01% | 178 287 votes | 0 councils | 14 seats
2. IFP – 25,83% | 109 629 votes | 0 councils | 6 seats
3. DA – 12,28% | 52 107 votes | 0 councils | 6 seats

Mpumalanga (32% complete)

1. ANC – 53,7% | 267 218 votes | 0 councils | 66 seats
2. DA – 17,13% | 85 226 votes | 0 councils | 14 seats
3. EFF – 14,99% | 74 577 votes | 0 councils | 0 seats

Northern Cape (71% complete)

1. ANC – 48,12% | 196 197 votes | 4 councils | 105 seats
2. DA – 21,83% | 88 986 votes | 0 councils | 22 seats
3. EFF – 8,56% | 34 889 votes | 0 councils | 7 seats

Limpopo (11% complete)

1. ANC – 66,62% |154 730 votes | 0 councils | 21 seats
2. EFF – 12% | 27 871 votes | 0 councils | 0 seats
3. DA – 10,8% | 25 086 votes | 0 councils | 0 seats

North West (16% complete)

1. ANC – 51,81% | 96 565 votes | 0 councils | 10 seats
2. DA – 16,96% | 31 607 votes | 0 councils | 5 seats
3. EFF – 13,81% | 25 747 votes | 0 councils | 0 seats

Western Cape (38% complete)

1. DA – 49,26% | 414 544 votes | 3 councils | 77 seats
2. ANC – 21,62% | 181 945 votes | 1 councils | 42 seats
3. Other Parties – 11,31% | 95 355 votes | 0 councils | 0 seats

For the live results visit https://results.elections.org.za/dashboards/lge/

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