LIVE: Freedom Front in fourth place behind ANC, DA and EFF in national results 2019Elections ElectionResults
The IEC Result Centre situated at the Pretoria Showgrounds is ready before the elections taking place on the 8th of May, 7 April 2019, Pretoria. Picture: Jacques Nelles
Analysts are already saying that the FF+ is likely picking up its votes from former Afrikaner DA voters who feel disaffected with the DA’s more racially progressive policies. BLF Spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp told eNCA that they still felt confident about going to parliament because most votes had not yet been counted in their “strongholds”, especially Gauteng. They would need about 40,000 more votes to guarantee that.The DA has lodged 60 official objections and 2,500 complaints against the results, eNCA reports. These will be taken up with the Independent Electoral Commission at around 10am when they meet at the national party liaison board meeting.
The Inkatha Freedom Party had around 50,000 votes, bearing in mind very few results from the KwaZulu-Natal province, its stronghold, had been captured on the results board.With just under 10% of the vote counted in Gauteng, South Africa’s economic heartland and one of the expected battleground provinces, the ruling African National Congress was also leading with over 120,000 votes, or just over 53% of the vote counted.
With less than a quarter of votes counted in South Africa’s border provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, the ANC was also leading the pack of political parties seeking seats in these provincial legislatures. By 7am on Wednesday, with just over 150,000 votes counted, the ANC was leading with just under 80,000 votes, followed by the IFP on 32,700 and the DA with 18,000.
A three-party dominance also emerged in the provinces of the Free State, North West and Northern Cape.
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