THE early results for this year’s Local Government Election’s highly contested metropolitan areas have started coming in, with about 40 per cent of votes counted nationally.

Just after 8am on Thursday morning, the results for the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality was showing that the Democratic Alliance (DA) is standing at 55.95%, while the African National Congress (ANC) had 34.69%, the EFF had 4.06% and UDM stood at 1.31%.

It’s early days still, as vote counting continues.

In the City of Tshwane, the DA stood at 48.38%, while the ANC had 38.76%, with the EFF at 8.63% and the VFPlus at 2.41%.

In the City of Johannesburg, the DA had 43.62% of the votes, while the ANC was at 40.85%, the EFF% was at 9.83% and IFP at 1.8%.

In Ekurhuleni, the DA stood at 46.07%, while the ANC had 41.67% and the EFF had 7.95%.

In the City Cape Town, the DA had 70.81% of the votes, while the ANC was at 20.33% and the EFF had 3.06% of the votes.

In the Free State’s Mangaung Municipality, the ANC had 51.55% of the votes, while the DA had 33.05%, the EFF was third with 7.96% and in fourth place was the VFPlus at 2.63%.

In Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape, the ANC had 53.5%, while the DA has 32.78% and the EFF had 6.5% of the votes.