SHOOT: Seems the major change is that Zulus switched from the IFP to the ANC and some ANC voters defected to COPE. If you think about it, the DA got 16.6% of the vote, and South Africa's whites represent 9% of the population. Consequentially, the biggest marginal voting outside of category (race) was for the DA.
The ANC won 69.69 percent of the vote in the last elections in 2004, when it was led by Zuma's rival Thabo Mbeki. It won 66.35 percent in 1999. In the country's first all-race vote in 1994, the ANC won 62.64 percent of the vote.
The main opposition Democratic Alliance got just over 16 percent. In total more than 77 percent of the country's record 23 million registered voters cast ballots. Turnout in 2004 was about 76 percent of more than 20 million registered voters.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille had said her main election goals were to stop the ANC's two-thirds majority and to win the Western Cape, which is the heart of the country's wine and tourism industries. Zille, who won praise for her stint as mayor of Cape Town, is now expected to become the province's premier.
The ANC lost support in eight of the country's nine provinces, with a drop of up to 10 points in some cases, but still won those provinces. |
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