ELECTION NEWS - The Western Cape remains blue, statistics indicated late on Thursday, 9 May.

The Western Cape Electoral Officer, Courtney Sampson has said the final figures will only be available by approximately midday on Friday. 

However, indications are that, with 85.94% of the provincial votes counted, the DA is in a comfortable lead with 55.17% of the vote.

The ANC (28.79), however cautions that the tally from their traditional strong base – Khayelithsa – is not yet calculated and therefore the results may be vastly different once 100% of the results are available. 

The EFF (3.8%), GOOD (3.07%), ACDP (2.60%), and the Freedom Front Plus (1.74%) follows in the wake of the bigger parties. This snapshot was at 19:45.

Late on Thursday evening the national results indicated that 10 463 035 voters had cast their vote, a voter turnout of 65.43%. This translates into voter support for the ANC (56.70%), DA (22.50%), EFF (9.85%), IFP (2.77%), FF+ (2.59%).

The DA has since provided a summary of each of the constituencies percentage of the vote and total DA provincial votes cast.

The breakdown for all 14 constituencies are as follows:

Theewaterskloof: 16 261 (48%)
Overstrand: 24 795 (59%)
Cape Agulhas: 7 759 (57%)
Swellendam: 6 711 (52%)
Kannaland: 2 882 (31%)
Hessequa: 11 610 (51%)
Mossel Bay: 26 227 (61%)
George: 33 367 (51%)
Oudtshoorn: 14 108 (50%)
Bitou: 8267 (50%)
Knysna: 12 044 (49%)
Laingsburg: 1 268 (41%)
Prince Albert: 2 853 (57%)
Beaufort West: 6 345  (41%)
TOTAL: 174 497 (52%)

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