90 per cent of election results already captured
KZN along with Gauteng, Limpopo and the Free State are the provinces with the most results still awaiting capture.
ACCORDING to the Electoral Commission, they have passed the 90 per cent results capture mark at 10.30am today with results from 20 632 of the 22 924 voting stations captured.
Of these, 18 773 (81.89 per cent) had been finalised by 10.30am.
“Leading the way in capturing results was the Northern Cape where results for all 707 voting stations had been captured followed by the Western Cape (98.6 per cent), North West (99.4 per cent), Mpumalanga (99 per cent), Eastern Cape (97.59 per cent), and provinces with the most results still awaiting capture were Gauteng (81.99 per cent captured), Limpopo (82 per cent captured), Free State (82.93 per cent captured) and KwaZulu-Natal (83.56 per cent captured),” they said in a post on Facebook.
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Of the 13 million votes captured by 10.30am, 453 265 (3.47 per cent) were special votes and 179 511 (1.37 per cent) were spoilt ballots.
They added that based on the results captured to date, voter turnout was sitting at 65.52 percent nationally with the highest turnout reported in Gauteng (71.89 per cent) and the lowest in Limpopo (58.77 per cent).
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