ANC Leads DA in Preliminary South Africa Vote Count

South Africa’s African National Congress led the Democratic Alliance in preliminary national results from the November 4 municipal elections, with the ANC at about 32% and the DA at 27% after 36% of votes had been counted by 2 p.m. The Electoral Commission figures are an early snapshot, and the count could change as more ballots are tallied. Earlier snapshots showed a similar ANC share but a narrower gap. At 04:24 GMT, with about 12% counted, the commission put the ANC at about 32% and the DA at 31%. Another report said the ANC had 32% and the DA 28% with 28% counted. These figures reflect different stages of the preliminary count, not final results. The ANC’s early share was about 14 percentage points below its 45.59% result in the 2021 municipal election, according to the commission figures cited in reporting. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research separately projected that the ANC could finish with about 32% and the DA with 26%, based on declared results from 11.5% of voting districts. That projection is not a completed tally. In Johannesburg, an eNCA MarkData projection put the DA first at 32.36%, with the ANC at 18% to 22% and ActionSA at 15% to 19%. The...