{"id":132415,"date":"2016-08-04T08:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T06:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=132415"},"modified":"2016-08-04T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T06:08:34","slug":"da-takes-early-lead-in-nelson-mandela-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/132415\/da-takes-early-lead-in-nelson-mandela-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"DA takes early lead in Nelson Mandela Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By 07:00 on Thursday, the DA had an early lead in the highly-contested Nelson Mandela Bay metro, followed by the ANC and EFF.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all the voting stations in Nelson Mandela Bay were finished counting, IEC regional supervisor Crosby Bacela told News24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround 90% to 95% have been counted. But only 33% have been successfully captured here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>They still had to capture around 67% of the results, he said, which would take a bit of time.<\/p>\n<p>Voting stations that were still counting were in Summerstrand, Kuyga, Motherwell, Kwanobuhle, and Booysens Park, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The live vote count showed the DA with 54.04% versus the ANC&#8217;s 35.86%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where to get the results<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.org.za\/LGEDashBoard2016\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Independent Electoral Commission Website<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 The election results are published live on the IEC website.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Elections\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>News24 Local Government Election Results<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 All the election news and results in one place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Elections\/News\/da-takes-lead-in-nelson-mandela-bay-as-vote-count-trickles-in-20160804\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the elections<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/132409\/da-takes-kouga-municipality-in-the-eastern-cape-from-the-anc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DA takes Kouga Municipality in the Eastern Cape from the ANC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/132389\/when-you-can-expect-the-full-results-of-the-2016-municipal-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2016 Municipal Elections: when you can expect the full results<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/132357\/we-will-be-gracious-in-defeat-if-we-lose-nelson-mandela-bay-anc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>We will be gracious in defeat if we lose Nelson Mandela Bay \u2013 ANC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 07:00 on Thursday, the DA had an early lead in the highly-contested Nelson Mandela Bay metro, followed by the ANC and EFF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":132421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-132415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132431,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132415\/revisions\/132431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}