The ANC is expected to lose complete control in some provinces in the 2024 elections. (Alfonso Nkunjana/News24)
- With 97.84% of the votes counted, the ANC had won just over 40% of the national vote.
- Several new parties are likely to win seats in parliament.
- Everything you need to know about the 2024 general election on News24 Election Hub.
It's pretty much official: At around 10am, he had 97.84% of the vote, giving the ANC 40.12% of the national vote.
The DA has 21.74% of the vote, but corrupt former president Jacob Zuma's Mkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) is set to supplant the EFF as the third largest party with 14.79% support to the EFF's 9.4%.
The South African Electoral Commission's website estimated turnout at 58.59%, significantly lower than the 66% in 2019. Turnout was expected to be higher than in 2019, with long queues forming around polling stations from Wednesday evening into the early hours of Thursday morning.
PREDICTION | Provinces where the ANC is expected to lose control:
IFP was at 3.93%, PA at 2.04%, FF Plus at 1.36%, ActionSA at 1.16%, ACDP at 0.6%, UDM at 0.49%, Rise Mzansi at 0.41% and BOSA and ATM at 0.4%.
Al-Jama'ah received 0.24%, the National Cape Coloured People's Congress (CC) and PAC each received 0.23%, the United Africans for Transformation (UAT) received 0.22% and Patricia de Lille's GOOD party received 0.19%.
Although the seats have yet to be counted, the 7th Parliament will be very different to the 6th Parliament. MKP, PA and ActionSA are certain to win seats, Rise Mzansi and BOSA are also likely to win seats, and the other parties mentioned above also have a chance.
In 2019, Al-Jama'a won the only seat in parliament with 31,468 votes, or 0.18% of the vote.
In 2014, voter turnout was 73.48 percent and the APC won the seat with a vote ratio of 30 to 67, or 0.17 percent.
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However, this year the seats will be calculated a little differently. Previously, the national vote was used for the 200 national-to-national seats and the 200 state-to-national seats. This year, a regional vote has been introduced to accommodate independent candidates, and the results of this vote will be used for the 200 state-to-national seats.
It seems unlikely that an independent candidate will be elected to parliament.
