{"id":967546,"date":"2024-05-30T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967546"},"modified":"2024-05-30T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:27:23","slug":"anc-takes-lead-as-iec-counts-two-million-votes-by-1300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/anc-takes-lead-as-iec-counts-two-million-votes-by-1300\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC takes lead as IEC counts two million votes by 13:00"},"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>As of 13:00, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/944737-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over two million votes have been counted<\/a> in the 2024 national elections \u2013 the Electoral Commission (IEC) has confirmed that 20.41 % of the Voting Districts have been declared, with the African National Congress (ANC) still enjoying the majority of the support nationally.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling party is at 43.39%, followed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) at just under 25%.<\/p>\n<p>The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) remains steady at 8.81% in third place.<\/p>\n<p>But the new MK party is breathing down its neck at 8.05%.<\/p>\n<p>These are fresh results from the National Results Operations Centre at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed\" data-src=\"story\/2406798\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024 Elections | \u2018I am not nervous, I accept what comes\u2019: Margaret Arnolds of the AIC<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eKG23kG1FQ4?si=_iB7CDs6qNkKnsVR\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute As of 13:00, just over two million votes have been counted in the 2024 national elections \u2013 the Electoral Commission (IEC) has confirmed that 20.41 % of the Voting Districts have been declared, with the African National Congress (ANC) still enjoying the majority of the support nationally. The ruling party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1592,485,475,1327,974,2630],"class_list":["post-967546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-national-elections","tag-african-national-congress-anc","tag-democratic-alliance-da","tag-economic-freedom-fighters-eff","tag-mk-party","tag-national-results-operations-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967546","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}