There is a long way to go, and the final picture of the big winners and losers will only be known down the line - but early results have started to come in.
02 November 2021 - 09:51
SA has eight metros — Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape, eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Town in the Western Cape, Mangaung in the Free State, and Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg and Tshwane in Gauteng — and these are going to be key battlegrounds given how tightly contested many of these were following the last local vote in 2016.. We’ll start with the coastal provinces, and move inland.The ruling DA is off to a strong start, obtaining 66.28% , followed by the ANC with 8.
The party secured 83.16%, but this was based on just 2,627 votes counted for the ANC. The EFF was in second with 10.79% and the DA in third with 2.25% . No other party had secured more than 0.8% of the early votes by 8am.Often the last metro to be concluded, the IEC website said there were “no results” available by 8am.Another good start for the ANC in a metro where the party held strong even as performance dipped in other inland metros in 2016.
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