{"id":967542,"date":"2024-05-30T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T11:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967542"},"modified":"2024-05-30T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T11:26:13","slug":"da-takes-an-early-lead-in-the-w-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/da-takes-an-early-lead-in-the-w-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"DA takes an early lead in the W Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape is taking an early lead with more than 150 000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>This as over 23% of the votes are captured.<\/p>\n<p>The early results are mainly coming in from rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>They show that the Patriotic Alliance may give the African National Congress (ANC) a push for the official opposition status in the province.<\/p>\n<p>It is very early in the counting process but it seems like the Patriotic Alliance \u2013 coming in with nearly 35 000 votes after 10 o\u2019clock this morning \u2013 could be playing a much bigger role in politics in this province going forward.<\/p>\n<p>At this point it has just more than half of the votes allocated to the ANC, coming in just over 60 000.<\/p>\n<p>Votes allocated to the only independent candidate in the province, Zackie Achmat, are still very low.<\/p>\n<p>This is expected to change as the votes in the metro are captured.<\/p>\n<p>An independent candidate needs 86 000 votes to get one seat in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%!; margin-top: 4px!important; text-align: right!important;\"><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">2024 Elections | W Cape IEC to look at its processes following voting challenges: Michael Hendrickse<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZyM-C0Nh23c?si=88qbjrrUwqx8ogOl\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape is taking an early lead with more than 150 000 votes. This as over 23% of the votes are captured. The early results are mainly coming in from rural areas. They show that the Patriotic Alliance may give the African National Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":967543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[2886,1909,246,234,339,222,277],"class_list":["post-967542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections-results","tag-african-national-congress","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-patriotic-alliance","tag-western-cape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}