As the country awaits the final results of the 2024 Elections, the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) reiterated its commitment to achieving accuracy in capturing the votes counted in the 2024 National and Provincial Elections. With this in mind, we take a closer look at the results so far.
Firstly, on Thursday evening, 30 May 2024, the Commission held a briefing at the National Results Operation Centre (ROC) in Midrand, Gauteng, detailing the latest developments in the capturing and verification process following the General Election.
Moreover, earlier on Thursday, the IEC said in a briefing that with vote counting having been concluded, each voting station would embark on finalising its results. IEC General Manager Granville Abrahams explained that the reason the new developments were not appearing immediately on the leaderboard at the ROC was that the Commission was still verifying them to ensure accuracy.
“To achieve accuracy, we have various processes, the first one being the capturing of the results. The results slips have been received after being checked, [as well as being] scanned and audited,” said Abrahams.
Given that this was the first time there were three ballots in the National and Provincial Elections (i.e. National Ballot, Regional or Province-to-National Ballots, and Provincial Ballots), Abrahams said the Commission had anticipated that the counting process would take longer.
“We did expect that we will take longer this year and to that extent, we did share with the media that we have planned to have the results announcement on Sunday. Normally, we would have it on Saturday (1 June 2024),” he noted.
With this said, when looking at the results thus far, according to the IEC Results Dashboard, the votes counted for the National Assembly are currently at 62.43% complete (at the time of publication).
The leading parties, according to the IEC so far, are as follows:
- African National Congress received 41.89% support.
- Democratic Alliance obtained 22.95% support.
- uMkhonto weSizwe secured 11.76% support.
- Economic Freedom Fighters clinched 9.49% support.
- Patriotic Alliance received 2.62% support.
- Inkatha Freedom Party secured 2.88% support.
- VF Plus obtained 1.52% support.
- ActionSA secured 1.11% support.
- ACDP – obtained 0.61% support
In terms of the count thus far for the Provincial Legislature, the IEC’s Results Dashboard showcased that the counting process for KwaZulu-Natal is 51.57% complete.
The counting that has been completed shows the following results:
- uMkhonto weSizwe secured 43.78% support.
- African National Congress obtained 18.15% support.
- Inkatha Freedom Party secured 17.7%.
- Democratic Alliance holds 14.11%.
- Economic Freedom Fighters obtained 2.12%.
- National Freedom Party secured 0.65%.
- African Christian Democratic Party received 0.35%.
To view the live results of all parties, click on the following: Results Dashboard for 2024 National and Provincial Elections.
Taking a closer look at the Regional count for the Newcastle area thus far, the IEC’s Detailed Report as of 30 May 2024 highlights the following:
- uMkhonto weSizwe with 38.33% support and 1 392 votes.
- Democratic Alliance with 24.06% support and 874 votes.
- African National Congress with 12.78% support with 464 votes.
- Inkatha Freedom Party with 12.31% and 447 votes.
- Economic Freedom Fighters with 3.36% support and 122 votes.
- ActionSA with 3.22% support with 117 votes.
- VryheidsFront Plus with 0.30% support and a total of 11 votes.
To view the Regional results so far, click here.
With the final countdown until the final announcement on who will lead South Africa until the next National and Provincial Elections, what are your thoughts on the above?
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The KZN ANC is taking a beating because in the KZN ANC provincial Conference, they elected “The Talibans” and most of these people were people who had headed municipalities and had failed badly. The voters are just punishing the ANC for promoting failed municipal leaders to the province. It is a lesson to be learned by all parties.