South Africa: IEC Confirms Time for Result Announcement

The Electoral Commission (IEC) has declared that the official results of the 2024 South African national and provincial elections will be announced on Sunday, June 2, at 18:00.

Seven of the nine provinces at the time of publishing have concluded counting their votes.

Only Gauteng and the Eastern Cape are outstanding.

Meanwhile, this year’s elections saw the lowest ever percentage turnout of voters.

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) will emerge with the highest number of votes, but a radically reduced number to that received in 2019.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) will finish second with the newly-formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party in third and the EFF in fourth.

ELECTION RESULT IN 7 PROVINCES CONFIRMED

North West became the seventh of South Africa’s nine provinces to finish the counting of votes late on Saturday.

The Northern Cape was the first province to wrap up counting on Friday, followed by the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga and the Western Cape and Limpopo.

All 1 738 voting districts in the North West completed their counting late on Saturday evening.

The results were as follows:

Rank	Party	Votes	%
1	ANC	523 207	58.53%
2	EFF	146 578	16.40%
3	DA	120 519	13.48%
4	MK party	19 661	2.20%
5	VF PLUS	19 434	2.17%
6	ActionSA	11 961	1.34%
7	PA	8 194	0.92%
8	F4SD	4 684	0.52%
9	UAT	4 552	0.51%
10	BOSA	3 745	0.42%

Only the Top 10 parties in terms of votes received are reflected.

LIMPOPO FINAL VOTING

Rank	Party	Votes	%
1	ANC	1 061 696	74.23%
2	EFF	185 265	12.95%
3	DA	86 988	6.08%
4	MK party	14 364	1.00%
5	VF PLUS	13 652	0.95%
6	UAT	11 406	0.80%
7	ActionSA	9 094	0.64%
8	ACDP	4 499	0.31%
9	BOSA	4 080	0.29%
10	AADP	3 593	0.25%

Only the Top 10 parties in terms of votes received are reflected.

WESTERN CAPE FINAL VOTING

Rank	Party	Votes	%
1	DA	1 056 072	53.05%
2	ANC	424 756	21.34%
3	PA	145 913	7.33%
4	EFF	116 871	5.87%
5	CCC	35 115	1.76%
6	VF PLUS	34 841	1.75%
7	ACDP	25 761	1.29%
8	ALJAMA	19 564	0.98%
9	GOOD	18 301	0.92%
10	MK party	15 766	0.79%

Only the Top 10 parties in terms of votes received are reflected.

MPUMALANGA FINAL VOTING

Rank	Party	Votes	%
1	ANC	598 952	51.89%
2	MK party	199 000	17.24%
3	EFF	146 731	12.71%
4	DA	136 699	11.84%
5	VF PLUS	15 475	1.34%
6	ActionSA	5 738	0.50%
7	UAT	5 732	0.50%
8	IFP	5 285	0.46%
9	ACDP	5 012	0.43%
10	ATM	4 620	0.40%

Only the Top 10 parties in terms of votes received are reflected.

KWAZULU-NATAL FINAL VOTING

Rank	Party	Votes	%
1	MK party	1 614 188	45.93%
2	ANC	619 531	17.63%
3	IFP	572 451	16.29%
4	DA	479 410	13.64%
5	EFF	89 908	2.56%
6	NFP	16 991	0.48%
7	ACDP	11 833	0.34%
8	ActionSA	10 367	0.30%
9	PA	7 609	0.22%
10	VF PLUS	7 553	0.21%

Only the Top 10 parties in terms of votes received are reflected.

FREE STATE FINAL VOTING

Rank	Party	Votes	%
1	ANC	439 707	52.88%
2	DA	177 155	21.31%
3	EFF	108 819	13.09%
4	VF PLUS	20 740	2.49%
5	MK party	18 784	2.26%
6	ACT	11 589	1.39%
7	PA	10 958	1.32%
8	ATM	5 512	0.66%
9	ActionSA	4 468	0.54%
10	ACDP	3 684	0.44%

Only the Top 10 parties in terms of votes received are reflected.

NORTHERN CAPE FINAL VOTING

Rank	Party	Votes	%
1	ANC	196 146	49.3%
2	DA	84 436	21.22%
3	EFF	51 264	12.89%
4	PA	33 273	8.36%
5	VF PLUS	6 855	1.72%
6	NCCM	5 425	1.36%
7	MK party	3 729	0.94%
8	ActionSA	1 989	0.50%
9	GOOD	1 660	0.42%
10	#HOPE4SA	1 622	0.41%

Only the Top 10 parties in terms of votes received are reflected.

Meanwhile, former president Jacob Zuma and his newly-formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party have made the biggest splash in this year’s national election.

In terms of the overall picture at 09:15 on Sunday, 2 June, 23 269 of 23 293 voting districts have completed counting (99.9%) with a total of 16 244 507 votes counted.

The ANC leads the way with 6 446 989 votes (40.21%), followed by the DA (3 489 034 votes for 21.76%) with the MK party in third (2 339 111 votes at 14.59%).

The EFF has slipped to fourth place with 1 525 031 votes (9.51%).

As a reminder, in the 2019 elections the ANC finished top with 57.5% of the total vote.