The Electoral Commission (IEC) passed the 90% results capture mark at 10H30 today, with results from 20 632 of the 22 924 voting stations captured. Of these, 18 773 (81.89%) had been finalised.
Among the key considerations of the sixth Parliament is the national Budget that was tabled in February, says National Assembly (NA) Secretary Masibulele Xaso.
South Africa is inching closer to the finish line with 80% of the votes captured in the sixth National and Provincial Elections.
Political analysts have lauded the influence of President Cyril Ramaphosa in the performance of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 2019 National and Provincial Elections.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to visit the Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) Results Operations Centre in Pretoria this morning, where officials, observer missions, political party representatives and media have been camping at, over the past few days.
As vote counting enters the home stretch, a total 3.53% of the special votes have so far been recorded in the 2019 National and Provincial Elections.
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has overnight recorded a slight increase in the number of spoilt ballots recorded during Wednesday’s 2019 National and Provincial Elections.
As vote counting at the IEC’s national results centre in Pretoria continues, there has been marginal movement in voter turnout in the National and Provincial Elections.
Vote counting in the 2019 National and Provincial Elections is nearing the final stretch this morning.
The Electoral Commission (IEC) had finalised results from 13 731 of the 22 924 voting stations (59.89%), totaling 8.9 million votes at 6.30pm on Thursday.
Twenty people have been arrested for allegedly trying to vote for a second time during the 2019 National and Provincial Elections, says the South African Police Service (SAPS).
By Thursday afternoon, the leader board at Results Operation Centre (ROC) showed that over 7,5 million of the valid votes cast had been counted.
Senior researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Renée Koen, says the emergence of new political parties is an important development in any thriving democracy.
The Electoral Commission (IEC) will urgently conduct an audit of results and votes cast in a sample of voting stations to ascertain if double voting occurred.
Government has thanked the millions of South Africans from all walks of life who voted in the country’s sixth democratic national and provincial elections.
