The IEC says that based on the results captured to date, voter turnout is sitting at 65.52% nationally.
The Electoral Commission of South Africa on Friday morning announced that it had passed the 90% mark in respect of the number of voting stations captured.
In a statement, the IEC said that at 10.30am, results from 20,632 of the 22,924 voting stations had been captured. Of these, 18,773 had been finalised. IEC spokesperson Kate Bapela said: “Leading the way in capturing results was the Northern Cape where results for all 707 voting stations had been captured, followed by the Western Cape , North West , Mpumalanga , and the Eastern Cape .”
Provinces with the most results still awaiting capture were Gauteng , Limpopo , Free State , and KwaZulu-Natal .“Of the 13 million votes captured by 10H30, 453,265 were special votes and 179,511 were spoilt ballots.” The IEC said that based on the results captured to date, voter turnout was sitting at 65.52% nationally, with the highest turnout reported in Gauteng and the lowest in Limpopo .
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