Latest results show that the ANC’s support nationally is below 50%.

With just over 21% of voting districts reporting, the party has 46% of the vote, followed by the DA with a quarter.

The EFF is third with nine percent, while the FF+ has 3.7%.

Lesedi (Heidelberg) in Gauteng was one of the first municipalities to report its full results.

The ANC secured just over 50% of the vote there, compared to 62% in 2016. The DA is second with 20% (23.8% in 2016), while the EFF is third with 13%, followed by the FF+ with 9%.

In Umgeni, in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands (which includes the towns of Nottingham Road and Howick), the DA could win its first council in that province. With two thirds of votes counted, the DA is leading with 58.4% of the vote, with the ANC on 33.8%. In 2016 the ANC won 55%, compared to the DA’s 41.

The current state of play in the metros is as follows:

  • Cape Town: DA 59%, ANC 14.5%, Cape Coloured Congress 5.8%, GOOD 4.7% (12.5% of voting districts reporting);
  • Nelson Mandela Bay: ANC 44.5%, DA 36.1%, EFF 7.4% (12% of voting districts reporting);
  • Buffalo City: ANC 75%, DA 10.7%, EFF 9.8% (4.3% of voting districts reporting);
  • eThekwini: ANC 71%, EFF 8.8%, IFP 7.5%, DA 1% (fewer than one percent of voting districts reporting);
  • Mangaung: ANC 46.5%, DA 29%, EFF 9.6%. FF+ 5% (16% of voting districts reporting);
  • Ekurhuleni: ANC 34.5%, DA 33.6%, EFF 12.7%, ActionSA 6.1% (18% of voting districts counted);
  • Tshwane: DA 35.2%, ANC 30.9%, EFF 11.3%, FF+ 9.9% (8% of voting districts reporting);
  • Johannesburg: ANC 35.4%, DA 25.5%, ActionSA 19.7%, EFF 11.5% (8% of voting districts counted).

In other news, Carl Steenekamp, a former IRR research intern, has also been elected as a ward councillor in Merafong, in western Gauteng.

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