ANC just short of 70%
2004-04-16 01:55
Pretoria - With just over 81% of votes captured by early Friday morning, the African National Congress was just short of the
70% mark.
With the preliminary count updated by midnight, the ruling party was heading the national race with 8.8 million of the votes counted, which translates into 69.62% - continuing to make gains on its apparent two-thirds majority.
The Democratic Alliance was second in line with 1.64 million or 13.01%, followed by the Inkatha Freedom Party with 749 882 or 5.93% and the United Democratic Movement with 269 569 or 2.13%.
The New National Party was fourth with 240 564 votes or 1.9%, followed closely by the Independent Democrats with 239 217 votes or 1.89%.
The African Christian Democratic Party had 1.7%, the Freedom Front Plus 1.01% and the Pan Africanist Congress 0.73%.
The race for top position was still on in KwaZulu-Natal, which the ANC led with 45.49%. The IFP had 36.13% and its alliance partner, the DA, had 10.38%.
In the other contested province, the Western Cape - traditionally NNP territory - the ANC had 46.11% of the captured votes, the DA 26.95%, the NNP 9.42% and ID 7.97%.
The ANC held 65.83% of the vote in Gauteng, and the DA 23.13%.
The ruling party held 80.24% in the Eastern Cape; 80.9% in the Free State; 86.36% in Mpumalanga; 68.75% in the Northern Cape; 89.59% in Limpopo and 81.13% in the North West.
The final results were expected at about noon on Friday.
Watch the provisional results of the national and provincial elections as they come in on News24.com
- SAPA