{"id":132575,"date":"2016-08-05T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T06:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=132575"},"modified":"2016-08-05T08:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T06:45:38","slug":"election-results-after-90-vote-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/132575\/election-results-after-90-vote-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Election results after 90% vote count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the second day of vote counting for the 2016 Local Government Elections and about 90% of the votes have been counted.<\/p>\n<p>The results show that the ANC is leading with 54.20%, followed by the DA with 26.50% and the EFF at 7.95%.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Cape was the first province to finish its counting last night, with the ANC leading the votes at 58.57%, the DA at 25.07% and the EFF has 8.71% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>In Gauteng, the ANC stood at 45.61%, while the DA at 38.00% and the EFF has 11.01% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>In the Eastern Cape, the ANC is leading with 67.16%, the DA is at 17.45% and the EFF is at 5.09%.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC is leading in KwaZulu-Natal with 56.92%, while the IFP has 21.99% and the DA is at 13.29%.<\/p>\n<p>In the Free State, the ANC has 64.54% of the votes, the DA stood at 19.73% and the EFF was at 9.90%.<\/p>\n<p>In Mpumalanga, the ANC has 70.97%, while the DA is at 12.89% and the EFF has 9.43% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>In Limpopo, the ANC has 68.89% of the votes, the EFF has 16.61% and the DA has 8% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC is leading in the North West with 59.67% of the votes, while the EFF has 15.53% and the DA has 14.34%.<\/p>\n<p>In the Western Cape, the DA has 63.63%, the ANC stood at 26.61% and the EFF has 2.66% of the votes.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on elections<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/132385\/election-day-in-south-africa-how-it-unfolded\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Election day in South Africa: how it unfolded<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/132389\/when-you-can-expect-the-full-results-of-the-2016-municipal-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\">2016 Municipal Elections: when you can expect the full results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/132301\/how-will-the-anc-respond-to-the-prospect-of-losing-its-dominance\/\" target=\"_blank\">How will the ANC respond to the prospect of losing its dominance?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the second day of vote counting for the 2016 Local Government Elections and about 90 percent of the votes have been counted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":132391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-132575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132575","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132577,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132575\/revisions\/132577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}