The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) estimates that 90% of vote counting in the Monday 2021 Local Government Elections will be concluded by the end of Tuesday.
In its first media briefing since polls closed at 9pm, the IEC reported that, as at 10.30am, 27% of the 64 502 results expected, had been finalised.
“This status is in line with the expected result capturing process. It is estimated that 90 percent of results would be finalised by the evening. The balance of 10 percent would take another 24 hours to complete,” said Sy Mamabolo, IEC chief electoral officer (CEO).
Statistics revealed that the Northern Cape had completed 74% of its results. It was followed by the Western Cape at 46%.
In third position comes the Free State at 26%.
The rest of the provinces completion rate range between 15 and 37%.
Mamabolo said the result capturing involved several processes, including the verification of the result slips, the capturing, scanning and the auditing of the results.
“An independent audit firm have been procured for purposes of auditing the results,” he said.
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