{"id":967846,"date":"2024-06-02T15:02:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T15:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967846"},"modified":"2024-06-02T15:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T15:02:55","slug":"mpumalanga-records-voter-turnout-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/mpumalanga-records-voter-turnout-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Mpumalanga records voter turnout decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mpumalanga has recorded a more than 7% voter turnout decline in the 2024 National and Provincial elections when compared to the 2019 National and Provincial elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission (IEC) says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/100-votes-in-mpumalanga-tallied-anc-secures-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mpumalanga data shows about 58% of the over two-million-and-23 thousand people who were on the province\u2019s voters roll, came out to cast their votes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Provincial electoral officer Gugu Langa says a number of incidents experienced in this year\u2019s elections, came from the Bushbuckridge area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am now calling team Bushbuckridge, the celebrities of IEC because every election there are incidents in Bushbuckridge. 2021 we escorted them to count here in Mbombela. 2024 we escorted them to count here. We were forced to escort because members did not want the disputed ballot boxes to be counted,\u201d says Langa.<\/p>\n<p>Mpumalanga residents shared some of their views on the elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t understand why people still vote ANC when ANC can\u2019t deliver. After 30 years they still can\u2019t deliver. I am glad MK and DA are still up there a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another resident adds, \u201cI am happy because the ANC has won but the thing is their votes are low. I think it is a wake up call for them to fix their mistakes. I don\u2019t think lot of people did not vote for them because they don\u2019t like the party, but is because they want them to fix their mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">2024 Elections | MK Party nudged EFF to 3rd place in Mpumalanga<\/h4>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x6eRvbxeK8Y?si=Humt9ePoMZY-XxZI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes Mpumalanga has recorded a more than 7% voter turnout decline in the 2024 National and Provincial elections when compared to the 2019 National and Provincial elections. The Electoral Commission (IEC) says Mpumalanga data shows about 58% of the over two-million-and-23 thousand people who were on the province\u2019s voters roll, came out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,2130,1705,1593],"class_list":["post-967846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-2024-national-and-provincial-elections","tag-electoral-commission","tag-iec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967846","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=967846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}