ANC cruising to overall election win

The African National Congress was leading the national elections with more than 11 million votes on Friday (09/05/2014) afternoon.

According to preliminary results the party had 11,181,338 votes by 3pm - 62.24 percent of the national vote.

This was after 98.83 percent of counting had been completed.

In 2009, the ANC won the elections with 11,650,748 votes - 65.90 percent of the national vote at the time.

The Democratic Alliance was by Friday afternoon still holding second spot with 3,983,328 votes - 22.17 percent of the national vote.

In 2009, the opposition party had 16.66 percent of the vote.

Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters was in third place with 1,126,811 votes (6.27 percent).

Political parties would need about 47,000 votes for a seat in Parliament.

Mamphela Ramphele's Agang SA looked to get one seat in the National Assembly. So far the party had received 50,378 (0.28 percent) of the vote.

The Inkatha Freedom Party had so far received 434,406 votes (2.42 percent) and the National Freedom Party, a breakaway from the IFP, had 284,638 votes (1.58 percent).

Bantu Holomisa's United Democratic Movement received 182,612 votes, and the Freedom Front Plus 162,217 votes.

The Congress of the People, which came in third place in 2009, was now in eighth place with 120,780 votes so far.

In 2009, it garnered 1,311,027 votes.

The Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) said final election results would be announced at 6pm on Saturday.

A total of 24,822,807 people had registered to vote for this election. - Sapa