{"id":882526,"date":"2026-11-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=882526"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T04:51:23","slug":"where-to-get-the-2026-election-results-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/882526\/where-to-get-the-2026-election-results-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to get the 2026 election results online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Newsday has developed a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.za\/elections\/\">dedicated election portal<\/a><\/strong> where South Africans can track the 2026 local government elections in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.za\/elections\/\">Click here to visit the Newsday Election Results Portal.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2026 Local Government Elections commenced across the country with special voting on Monday, 2 November, and Tuesday, 3 November 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main voting will take place on Wednesday, 4 November 2026, and is set to be a hotly contested affair in metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louw Nel, senior political analyst at Oxford Economics Africa, pointed out that support for the ANC could fall to between 31% and 34%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is driven by a big decline in South Africa\u2019s largest cities, where the Democratic Alliance is set to dominate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While some welcomed the prospect of change, others warned of downsides to a future of city hall coalition deals and closed-door negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One problem with coalitions under the current legislation is that they are left to parties to negotiate amongst themselves,&#8221; said Joburg Crisis Alliance\u2019s Yunus Chamda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shifting political alliances and a revolving door of mayors have contributed to worsening services and financial decline in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problems include giving small parties too much power and allowing politicians to evade accountability, Chamda said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johannesburg&#8217;s previous two mayors were from a party that held only 3 of 270 seats on the city council. The city has seen seven mayors since 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s created this huge instability. And when you confront political parties, they are able to divert the attack to the fact that it&#8217;s a coalition,&#8221; Chamda said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Track the election results through Newsday\u2019s election results portal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Newsday-Election-Results.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Newsday-Election-Results-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-882527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Newsday-Election-Results-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Newsday-Election-Results-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Newsday-Election-Results-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Newsday-Election-Results-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Newsday-Election-Results.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To make it easy for South Africans to follow the 2026 local government election results, Newsday has built a dedicated portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The portal offers all election data since 1999, making it easy for visitors to track changes in support for different political parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The election results include those for municipalities, provincial legislatures, and the national assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the interactive map, users can zoom in on a local government region to view results for that municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The portal will be updated in real time to keep visitors up to date with the latest results from South Africa\u2019s 2026 local government elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.za\/elections\/\">Visit the Newsday Election Results Portal here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday has developed a dedicated election portal where South Africans can track the 2026 local government elections in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":882659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2117845555632075126","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2260238271463238","_sma_instagram_post_id":"17881702014554606","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27024,27025,27027,23338,16902,27026],"class_list":["post-882526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-2026-local-government-elections","tag-election-results","tag-joburg-crisis-alliance","tag-newsday","tag-oxford-economics-africa","tag-yunus-chamda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882526","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882528,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882526\/revisions\/882528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}