Charles Molele
The ruling African National Congress has managed to retain the hotly contested Gauteng province after the party received just over 50% of votes, securing 37 seats in the provincial legislature.
The final results put the ANC in Gauteng at 50.19%, the DA at 27.4% and the EFF at 14.6%.
Earlier, polls suggested that the governing party could get under 50% of the votes in Gauteng, and possibly end up forming a coalition government with other smaller parties.
“I told you about Gauteng yesterday, we will win. Sorry Malema, sorry everybody,” ANC’s elections head, Fikile Mbalula told the media outside the IEC results operations centre.
Gauteng election results:
- ANC – 50.19% support with 2 168 253 votes
- DA – 27.45% support with 1 185 743 votes
- EFF – 14.69% support with 634 387 votes
- VF Plus – 3.56% support with 153 844 votes
- IFP – 0.89% support with 38 263 votes
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