2019 ELECTIONS: Political parties happy with the Western Cape results — but IEC takes some flak By Karabo Mafolo
Since voting stations closed on Wednesday night, national and provincial votes have been coming in thick and fast. By Thursday at 9.48pm, 90.75% of votes in the Western Cape had been counted.
Coming in with the fourth-most votes was Patricia de Lille’s Good party with 3.09%, while the ACDP had 2.67% and the Freedom Front Plus 1.69%. Botha-Rossouw believes that because parties weren’t prevented from campaigning on the day, it led to voters “splitting their vote.”On the provincial side, we get to see that the voters voted Freedom Front Plus nationally and then they split their vote to vote DA in the province,” said Botha-Rossouw.
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