Election progress update

The live dashboard, featuring results for every ward, is available here: https://results.elections.org.za/dashboards/lge/

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A grahic showing the results as captured by Friday night. Image: IEC

South Africa has now reached 97% election progress, the IEC confirmed at 07:46 this morning.

Counting, capturing and verification have been completed in 23 210 of the 23 696 voting districts.
Results for a total of 4 190 wards and 190 municipalities have been finalised.
A total of 7 372 seats have been allocated.

The deadline for lodging objections in terms of Section 65 of the Local Government: Municipal Electoral Act was 17:00 on Friday, November 6.

The live dashboard, featuring results for every ward, is available here: https://results.elections.org.za/dashboards/lge/

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Liezl Scheepers

Liezl Scheepers is editor of the Parys Gazette, a local community newspaper distributed in the towns of Parys, Vredefort and Viljoenskroon. As an experienced community journalist in all fields for the past 30 years, she has a passion for her community, and has been actively involved in several community outreach projects as part of Parys Gazette's team.