{"id":967584,"date":"2024-05-30T18:55:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967584"},"modified":"2024-05-30T18:55:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:55:54","slug":"mk-party-overtakes-eff-nationally-with-34-of-votes-counted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/mk-party-overtakes-eff-nationally-with-34-of-votes-counted\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Party overtakes EFF nationally with 34% of votes counted"},"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>With just over 34% of the national votes counted, former President Jacob Zuma\u2019s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has overtaken the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/live-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)<\/a> and is now in third place nationally with 9.38% of the vote counted.<\/p>\n<p>The African National Congress (ANC) is still ahead of the pack, with just 42.31% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Alliance (DA) is in second position with almost 25% of the votes nationally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed\" data-src=\"story\/2406798\"><\/div>\n<p>2024 Elections | Analysing early election results with Dr Ndumiso Cingo, Dr Imraan Buccus<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zybFyYGjSw8?si=UtCre4TNBQ4za3y3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">?Objections and Appeals<\/p>\n<p>Any interested party, including members of the public, independent candidates and political parties, may lodge an objection which is material to the result of an election, with the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>A section 55 objection for the 2024 elections must be\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c72Xqq5s4o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/c72Xqq5s4o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IEC South Africa (@IECSouthAfrica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IECSouthAfrica\/status\/1796198495445000227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute With just over 34% of the national votes counted, former President Jacob Zuma\u2019s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has overtaken the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and is now in third place nationally with 9.38% of the vote counted. The African National Congress (ANC) is still ahead of the pack, with just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":967585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,234,339,2311,617,547,1991],"class_list":["post-967584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-economic-freedom-fighters","tag-eff","tag-mk","tag-umkhonto-wesizwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967584","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}