{"id":426828,"date":"2011-05-19T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/19\/close-to-90-percent-of-votes-captured\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:19:02","slug":"close-to-90-percent-of-votes-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/close-to-90-percent-of-votes-captured\/","title":{"rendered":"Close to 90 Percent of Votes Captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"34.8982020095\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapa.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/sapa180.gif\" alt=\"South African Press Association (Johannesburg)\" title=\"Visit South African Press Association (Johannesburg)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>19 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Almost 89 percent of votes in the local government elections have been captured, but major metros were still outstanding, chief electoral officer Pansy Tlakula said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs at 2pm this afternoon 51,642 of the 58,158 results slips were already captured. This constitutes 88.8 percent of the results slips expected,\u201d she said at the results operation centre in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, 71 percent had been audited and released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA number of results in metropolitan councils are however still outstanding&#8230;. ,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo City had released 85 percent, Nelson Mandela Bay 99 percent and Ekurhuleni 95 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Johannesburg was on 20 percent, Mangaung 50 percent, Tshwane 56 percent, Ethekwini 22 percent, and the City of Cape Town on 34 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Tlakula said preliminary voter turnout was 56 percent and two percent of ballots were spoilt.<\/p>\n<p>She emphasised, however, that this eight percent increase in voter turnout from the previous election was preliminary, especially as the metro results were not yet in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is too early for us to talk about voter turnout,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>There had been no official objections to the results, although two parties had said they might lodge complaints, she said.<\/p>\n<p>There would be a recount of votes in one of the wards in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Electoral Commission expected to complete capturing and validating results on Friday and declare the results on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105190970.html\" title=\"Close to 90 Percent of Votes Captured\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Close to 90 Percent of Votes Captured<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 19 May 2011 Almost 89 percent of votes in the local government elections have been captured, but major metros were still outstanding, chief electoral officer Pansy Tlakula said on Thursday. \u201cAs at 2pm this afternoon 51,642 of the 58,158 results slips were already captured. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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