Electoral Commission on election results

Update on election results capture 10 May 2019

The Electoral Commission passed the 90 percent results capture mark at 10h30 today with results from 20 632 of the 22 924 voting stations captured. Of these, 18 773 (81.89 percent) had been finalised.

Leading the way in capturing results was the Northern Cape where results for all 707 voting stations had been captured followed by the Western Cape (98.6 percent), North West (99.4 percent), Mpumalanga (99 percent), Eastern Cape (97.59 percent), and

Provinces with the most results still awaiting capture were Gauteng (81.99 percent captured), Limpopo (82 percent captured), Free State (82.93 percent captured) and KwaZulu-Natal (83.56 percent captured).

Of the 13 million votes captured by 10h30, 453 265 (3.47 percent) were special votes and 179 511 (1.37 percent) were spoilt ballots.

Based on the results captured to date, voter turnout was sitting at 65.52 percent nationally with the highest turnout reported in Gauteng (71.89 percent) and the lowest in Limpopo (58.77 percent).

For media interviews with Electoral Commission officials please E-mail requests to: spokesperson@elections.org.za

Enquiries:
Kate Bapela
Cell: 082 600 6386

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