A voter is marked by an election official in Attridgeville, Pretoria, on Wednesday.  Picture: GCIS
A voter is marked by an election official in Attridgeville, Pretoria, earlier this month. Picture: GCIS

ALMOST nine hours after the voting stations closed in the fifth democratic election in South Africa, over 20% of the votes had been counted on Thursday morning.

At 5.45am, 23.33% of votes had been counted and the African National Congress (ANC) had 1,592,714 votes; the Democratic Alliance (DA) 850,186; the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) 110,790; and the United Democratic Movement (UDM) had 27,337 votes.

The Freedom Front Plus (FF+) had 35,251; the Congress of the People (COPE) 22,355; the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) 55,510; Agang SA 6,376; and the National Freedom Party (NFP) had 38,150 votes.

The Workers Socialist Party had 1,343 votes; the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) 19,175; the African Independent Congress 15,637; and the African Peoples Convention had 4,898 votes.

Al Jama-Ah had 6,066 votes; Azanian Peoples Organisation 2,810; Bushbuckridge Residents Association 1,556; First Nation Liberation Alliance 652; and Front National 920.

The Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa had 5,638 votes; Keep It Straight and Simple 594; Kingdom Governance Movement 1,060; Minority Front 1,498; and Pan Africanist Congress of Azania 4,745 votes.

The Pan Africanist Movement had 619 votes; Patriotic Alliance 4,633; Peoples Alliance 327; the Ubuntu Party 1,397; United Christian Democratic Party 2,334; and United Congress 512.

Political party representatives started arriving again at the IEC results centre in Pretoria at 6am.

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