ANC tally grows and grows
2004-04-16 05:34
Pretoria - With just over 88.2% of votes captured by early Friday morning, the African National Congress has nearly garnered 70% of the votes.
With the preliminary count updated by 03:00, the ruling party was heading the national race with 9,39 million of the votes counted, which translates into 69.67% - continuing to make gains on its apparent two-thirds majority.
The Democratic Alliance was second in line with 1,71 million or 12.74%, followed by the Inkatha Freedom Party with 840 573 or 6.24% and the United Democratic Movement with 302 787 or 2.25%.
The New National Party was fourth with 245 380 votes or 1.82%, followed closely by the Independent Democrats with 246 214 votes or 1.83%.
The African Christian Democratic Party had 1.67%, the Freedom Front Plus 0.97% and the Pan Africanist Congress 0.73%.
The race for top position was still on in KwaZulu-Natal, with the ANC leading with 45.97%. The IFP had 35.85% and its alliance partner, the DA, had 10.17%.
In the other contested province, the Western Cape - traditionally NNP territory - the ANC had 46.11% of the captured votes, the DA 26.92%, the NNP 9.44% and ID 7.97%.
The ANC held 66.02% of the vote in Gauteng, and the DA 22.85.
The ruling party held 80.21% in the Eastern Cape, 81.39% in the
Free State, 86.38% in Mpumalanga, 68.75% in the Northern Cape, 89.68 in Limpopo and 81.45% in the North West.
Final results are expected at about noon on Friday.
Watch the provisional results of the national and provincial elections as they come in on News24.com
- SAPA