ANC missed two-thirds majority

By Mandisi Tyulu
25 April 2009

The Final results show that the African National Congress won a decisive victory in Wednesday’s election.

But with 65-point-nine-percent of the vote, it missed the two-thirds majority needed to make constitutional changes unchallenged.

The ruling party nevertheless got around a million more votes than in 2004. The Democratic Alliance remains the official opposition with just over 16-and-a-half-percent, and four months after it was formed, the Congress of the People captured just under seven-and-a-half-percent of the support nationally.Voter turnout was 77-point-three-percent .

The DA won the Western Cape with a 51-point-46-percent outright majority. The ANC is the official opposition there, with Cope edging out the Independent Democrats for the third place.

The ANC took KwaZulu-Natal, with the Inkatha Freedom Party in second place.

The DA is the official opposition in Gauteng, North West, Mpumalanga and the Free State, while Cope has that status in the Eastern and Northern Cape, and in Limpopo

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