South Africa
DA drops below previous share of vote, while EFF tops 10% in election results─── 07:49 Fri, 10 May 2019
With nearly three-quarters of the votes in the 2019 elections counted and released by the IEC on Friday it was clear that the ANC had suffered a significant drop in support compared with five years ago, while the DA has also lost some vote share.
The ANC got above 62% in 2014 and was now above 57%, while the DA dropped below the more than 22% peak they enjoyed in the previous general elections.
Of the big three, only the EFF has shown significant growth in this election, placing them above a 10% share now that the bigger voting districts’ results are coming in.
The IFP have had a late surge in the results, passing the Freedom Front Plus to take up the fourth position nationally. It was also neck and neck between them and the DA to see who would be the opposition in KwaZulu-Natal.
The DA has retained power in the Western Cape, albeit with a smaller majority.
The EFF has comfortably remained the opposition in North West and Limpopo, while also being on course to take that title from the DA in Mpumalanga.
The voting share of the ANC in Gauteng looks slightly down, but it was not the two-horse race some analysts predicted, with the DA in a very distant second.
It was announced at a press briefing yesterday that the commission had undertaken to release 90% of the results by 10pm on Thursday, but this proved to be overly ambitious.
