Sat 11 May 2019
With vote counting at 99.82% complete, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has taken most of the votes cast outside of South Africa.
The party obtained 74.45% of votes cast abroad in South Africa’s sixth National and Provincial Elections, administered by the Electoral Commission (IEC). The African National Congress (ANC) took the second spot with 10.83% of the votes followed by the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) in third place with 4.57% of the vote. The counting of overseas votes started on Wednesday night soon after polls in South Africa closed at 21:00.
On Thursday, IEC Chief Executive Officer Mosotho Moepya said there were a number of missions abroad whose votes had not been received by 21:00 on Wednesday. South Africans living abroad cast their vote on 27 April 2019 at 121 foreign missions.
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