Election2019Results: IEC passes 90% election results capture mark by Friday morning
PRETORIA – The Independent Electoral Commission said on Friday morning it passed the 90% results capture mark, with results from 20 632 of the 22 924 voting stations captured.#ElectionResults It appears the support for the ANC has dropped in Gauteng - while the party is still in the lead it’s dipped below the 50 percent mark. TK pic.twitter.com/rNpYbPAZsy
— EWN Reporter May 10, 2019 “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 , Eastern Cape , and provinces with the most results still awaiting capture were Gauteng , Limpopo , Free State and KwaZulu-Natal ,” the commission said in a statement.
#ElectionResults @MYANC still leading in KZN but can it recover its 2014 performance or has it lost 10% support? pic.twitter.com/OS0u1x573tOf the 13 million votes captured by 10:30 am, 453 265 were special votes and 179 511 were spoilt ballots. The IEC said based on the results captured to date, voter turnout was sitting at 65% nationally with the highest turnout reported in Gauteng and the lowest in Limpopo .
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