Hoorah for DA! – Tweets
Congratulatory Tweets and Facebook posts streamed in as DA was announced as the official biggest party in Tshwane.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) social media pages were flooded with support on Saturday afternoon as the final Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) results indicated that the DA won the local government election race in the Tshwane metro by securing 43.10% of the votes, followed closely by the African National Congress at 41,48%.
https://twitter.com/brandon_ferlito/status/761882812823826433
Counting of votes in the all-important Tshwane metro was completed shortly before 13:00 on Saturday.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) ended its challenge on 11,64% – a total of 206 874 ballots cast in its favour.
@SollyMsimanga congratulations Mr Mayor 😃💃🏽💃🏽Tshwane will never be the same again 💃🏽💃🏽💙💙💙 #KhulaDA
— Angela Nanchou (@MrsNanchou) August 6, 2016
With neither the DA nor the ANC achieving 50% or more of the votes, both parties will have to scramble to form a coalitions with EFF cooperation being the top prize.
https://twitter.com/telsadl/status/761884496350306304
No time can be wasted for coalition talks to start. There is only a two-week window in which a clear leader for the council must emerge to avoid another election.
#KhulaDA!! Let us never take the voters for granted.
This is the power of the ballot box. https://t.co/fXT4Yv1Q1b
— Democratic Alliance (@Our_DA) August 6, 2016
In Johannesburg votes are still being counted with the ANC currently holding the lead.
Meanwhile, the ANC also took to their social media and noted that although they did extremely well overall, there is definitely room for improvement.
"and where we have not done well let’s look at what happened & not look for someone to blame & take collective responsibility" @ANCDSGDuarte
— African National Congress (@MYANC) August 6, 2016
#ANCDSGDuarte at the IEC Results Operations Centre pic.twitter.com/RTDbS5owA5
— African National Congress (@MYANC) August 6, 2016
Also read:
IEC UPDATE: ANC still in the run for Tshwane
No coalition talks yet, ANC still in the lead in Tshwane
Voting on a nail biting edge
DA leads the pack at midday, Friday
DA remains in the lead in Tshwane
DA still in the lead, but only just
Elections 2016: DA in the lead in Gauteng
Smooth sailing in 2016 local elections
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