Local government elections 2026: the count as it comes in
Every party’s share of the vote, the eight metros and each province, from the IEC’s results as they’re released, checked every minute.
By Unmapped News ·
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South Africans voted for their municipal councils on Wednesday 4 November, and the Electoral Commission is releasing results as each voting district’s count is captured. The tracker below reads the IEC’s results every minute while this page is open.
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How to read it
- Share of votes adds up the ward and proportional (PR) ballots counted so far. Early on it leans towards the voting districts that count fastest, so it moves as the count goes on.
- Seats are only those already allocated. Ward seats are won as each ward finishes; a council’s PR seats are shared out once its whole count is in, so seat totals lag the vote.
- A majority in a council is more than half its seats. A hung council is one where no party has that, and a coalition will have to govern.
- Counted is the share of voting districts whose results the IEC has captured.
Every figure is the IEC’s, and provisional until the Commission declares the results.
