Over 5% of votes counted after LGE: IEC
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Electoral Commission (IEC) says over 5% of votes have been counted after polls for the Local Government Elections (LGE) closed on Wednesday night. The IEC said 12.5 million registered voters had cast their ballots by 5 pm on Wednesday. As results continue to trickle in from smaller wards around the country, the African National Congress (ANC) is the leading party so far with 19 seats, most of those in the Northern Cape. The Democratic Alliance (DA) has won seven, four in the Western Cape, two in the Northern Cape as well as Sundays River Valley in the Eastern Cape. The Patriotic Alliance (PA) has four wins so far from the party’s expected strongholds in the Northern and Western Cape. ActionSA has won Laingsburg in the Western Cape, while uMkhonto weSizwe (MKP)…