Johannesburg – With a third of the votes counted, South Africa’s ruling ANC is on course to win another general election but lose its 30-year-old outright majority, partial results showed on Thursday.
According to the Independent Electoral Commission, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s African National Congress has won 42.19 percent of the votes, with 7,658 districts out of 23,293 reporting.
[UPDATE] Here are the latest national vote results as of 19h00. ANC is still ahead, DA in second position, MK party in third position and EFF in fourth . IEC centers continue to count more votes. #Newzroom405 #Vote24 #ElectionResults
[SOURCE: IEC] pic.twitter.com/3zzZeL28kU
— Newzroom Afrika (@Newzroom405) May 30, 2024
This would leave it the largest single party in the National Assembly but, crucially, without the absolute majority it has won in every previous national vote since the advent of democracy in 1994.
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Source: AFP
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