GEORGE NEWS – The Democratic Alliance (DA) is currently leading the George municipal election results with 50.3% of the vote (70 870 votes), according to the Independent Electoral Commission's (IEC) results dashboard at 02:00 this morning, which showed that 98% of votes had been counted. The IEC has indicated that the counted votes are still undergoing verification before the results can be officially announced.
The Patriotic Alliance (PA) is in second place with 19.3% (27 198 votes), followed by the African National Congress (ANC) with 15.11% (21 293 votes). The Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) has secured 7.25%, while the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has received 2.31%.
In the ward results, the DA has won 15 of George's 28 wards, while the PA has secured seven and the ANC six.
Ward-by-ward results
The following breakdown shows the leading party and its percentage of the vote in each ward, based on the results counted so far:
- Ward 1: DA – 52.9%
- Ward 2: DA – 78.73%
- Ward 3: DA – 76.59%
- Ward 4: DA – 78%
- Ward 5: DA – 61.35%
- Ward 6: PA – 41.56% (DA – 39.11%)
- Ward 7: PA – 37.1%
- Ward 8: PA – 54.07%
- Ward 9: ANC – 64.7%
- Ward 10: ANC – 74.03%
- Ward 11: DA – 49.2%
- Ward 12: ANC – 63.52%
- Ward 13: ANC – 55.07%
- Ward 14: DA – 44.04%
- Ward 15: ANC – 60.2%
- Ward 16: PA – 53.48%
- Ward 17: PA – 47.13%
- Ward 18: DA – 74.19%
- Ward 19: DA – 78.45%
- Ward 20: PA – 48.45%
- Ward 21: ANC – 68.11%
- Ward 22: DA – 82.39%
- Ward 23: DA – 69.48%
- Ward 24: PA – 36.3%
- Ward 25: DA – 47.12%
- Ward 26: DA – 81.76%
- Ward 27: DA – 48.5%
- Ward 28: DA – 78.43%
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