Early results from Election Day trickle in

WITH a little over 16.66 per cent of the voting districts having completed their counting so far, the results up on the leader board at the IEC’s National Results Operation Centre in Pretoria are far from final.

Results have been trickling in overnight, and current data shows that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is enjoying an early lead nationally.

Just before 7am on Thursday the ANC was enjoying a lead of 927 857 (53.35 per cent) voter support nationally. They were followed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) with 480 992 (27.66 per cent) votes. The red berets, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), were at 133 640 (7.68 per cent) votes.

According to the data so far from the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) early this morning, the voter turnout was at 64.84 per cent with total vote cast sitting at 504 717. The voting population is 3 128 567 with 1 579 voting districts.

As you head to work and school on this first day of results counting, these are the available statistics so far as at 6:41 am. According to the election statistics voter turnout was at 64.44% while there were over 20000 spoilt votes. #SAElections19 pic.twitter.com/KOrDt12mkq

— @SAgovnews (@SAgovnews) May 9, 2019

Data shows the smaller parties were suffering as the contest seems to be between the ANC, EFF and the DA.

In terms of the provincial government breakdown – the ANC gained 120 854 (53.17  per cent) votes, the DA 57 282 (25.20 per cent) votes and the EFF 30 425 (13.39 per cent) votes in Gauteng. So far, 277 (10 per cent) of the voting districts have completed their counting.

In KwaZulu-Natal, 347 (7.1 per cent) voting districts have completed their counting which showed that the ANC was leading with 160 (53.74 per cent), the IFP with 27 519 (22.35 per cent) and the DA with 14 952 (12.15 per cent).

These figures are changing as vote-counting continues on Thursday.

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