First votes counted for 2019 Elections

First votes counted for 2019 Elections

With the first results coming from the rural Eastern-Cape, the controversial African Transformation Movement (ATM) landing it's first vote ever.

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South Africans turned up in numbers on 8 May to vote in the much-anticipated National and Provincial elections.

By Thursday morning, the first results were starting to trickle in.

By 5:30, just over 12 percent of the votes cast on Wednesday has been counted.

With the first results coming from the rural Eastern-Cape, the controversial African Transformation Movement (ATM) landing it's first vote ever.

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By 6am, anout1,1 million votes had been counted already with  just over 15,000 spoilt.

More results will be added here as they become avialable.

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