ANC takes early lead as national, Eastern Cape results released

 

The ANC has secured an early lead in the Eastern Cape as the count of votes exceeded 10% on Thursday morning. At 8am, results from 2,335 of the 23,293 national voting districts were in. Nationally, the ANC had 42.30% of the vote, followed by the DA with 26.34% and the EFF with 8.1%.

In the Eastern Cape, 128 of the 4,868 voting districts had reported, with the ANC at 70.73%, the DA at 10.25%, and the EFF at 9.19%. The MK Party, a newcomer, had secured 1.9% of the vote provincially, just below the UDM at 2.07%..

“We will check in the afternoon — it is still early days for us.” he said.

The Eastern Cape was the first province to officially release results from the 2024 national and provincial elections.

The results were from the Bizana Baptist Church voting station in the Winnie Madikizela-Mandela municipality for the national ballot.

The final result is not expected to be known before the weekend.