Overnight results show ANC leading local council elections, but support below 50% in many regions

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With 9% of votes in the Local Government Elections counted across South Africa by 5am on Tuesday morning, support for the ANC at the polls stands at just under 45%, while the DA has 28% and the EFF 7.5% support from voters. Results have been returned in more than 2220 of the 23 148 voting districts. A result has been announced in only one of the 213 municipalities so far, where the ANC has secured 50.5% of the vote in the KhaI Ma municipal region in the Northern Cape. Around 90 of the 8794 seats have been allocated, of which the bulk have been secured by the ANC (53) and the DA (28).

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