Very early counts in South Africa’s national election have put the long-ruling African National Congress at just over 42% of the vote
A woman casts her ballot at a polling station, during general elections in Eshowe, South Africa, Wednesday May 29, 2024.
The electoral commission was projecting a 70% voter turnout in this election, up from the 66% in the last national election in 2019. The ANC won 57.5% of the vote in that last election, its worst performance to date. The results that had been declared were from less than 4,000 of the more than 23,000 polling stations across the nine provinces that make up South Africa and there was a long way to go in the counting process. Nearly 28 million people out of South Africa's population of 62 million were registered to vote.
That political opposition is spread amongst an array of other parties, however, and the ANC was still widely expected to be the biggest party and have the most seats in Parliament. But if its vote does drop below 50% for the first time, it would likely need a coalition to remain in government and an agreement with others to reelect Ramaphosa. That has never happened before.
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