#ElectionResults: latest update

In key metros like Tshwane and Joburg, where results have been trickling in, the three main parties dominate the leader board.

Pretoria - Counting of votes for the local government elections has resumed after IEC staffers were given a break on Friday morning.

At the IEC’s national centre in Pretoria various political party representatives have started arriving with many of their leaders expected to show up later in the day.

In key metros such as Tshwane and Joburg, where results have been trickling in, three main parties dominated the leader boards.

In Joburg the ANC remained at 41.83%, DA at 41.54% and the EFF at 10.76%, with only 70.43% of wards counted.

For Tshwane the results looked similar, but with the DA leading at 43.86% the ANC at 41.53% and the EFF at 10.55%.

And in Nelson Mandela Bay the ANC has conceded defeat. The DA is now in talks with possible partners.

Nationally the ANC has so far scored 53.94% of the vote and the DA 26.47%.

And in some municipalities around the country it has started to emerge that politicians will have to negotiate coalitions.

Areas such in the Western Cape and Limpopo have seen various hung councils.

Elections Bureau