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SOUTH AFRICA’S Independent Electoral Commission issued official figures for the country’s general election this weekend, confirming the ruling African National Congress as the winner.
With all 22,000 voting districts counted, the ANC had 62.15 per cent of the vote, three percentage points lower than its result in 2009 elections.
The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, won 22.23 per cent of the vote, an increase of more than 5 per cent from 2009, while the Economic Freedom Fighters, headed by former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, took 6.35 per cent.
Under South Africa’s national list system, the ANC enters the new parliament with 249 of the 400 seats, the Democratic Alliance has 89 seats and the Economic Freedom Fighters is third-largest with 25 seats. Smaller parties share the rest of the seats.
The turnout was 73 per cent of the 25 million South Africans who are registered to vote in the national and provincial elections.
