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Eastern Cape: 2014 provincial election results

ANC wins province with 70% of the vote, DA comes in second with 16,2% (with seat allocations)

The African National Congress has won the 2014 provincial elections with 70,09% of the vote. The Democratic Alliance came in second with 16,2% of the vote, followed by the United Democratic Movement with 6,16%, the Economic Freedom Fighters with 3,48%, COPE with 1,2% and the African Independent Congress with 0,77%.

In the 2009 provincial elections the ANC won 1,552,676 votes (68,82%), followed by COPE with 308 439 (13,67%), the DA with 225,310 (9,99%), the UDM with 93,196 (4,13%), and the AIC with 17,306 (0,77%) (see here).

Provincial ballot

Seat allocations

Party

No. of Votes

% Votes

Seat allocation

% of seats

ANC

1 528 345

70.09%

45

71.4%

DA

353 316

16.20%

10

15.9%

UDM

134 280

6.16%

4

6.3%

EFF

75 776

3.48%

2

3.2%

COPE

26 129

1.20%

1

1.6%

AIC

16 786

0.77%

1

1.6%

PAC

9 691

0.44%

ACDP

7 291

0.33%

VF Plus

6 818

0.31%

APC

5 000

0.23%

KGM

3 932

0.18%

NFP

3 472

0.16%

AZAPO

2 509

0.12%

AGANG SA

2 372

0.11%

UNICO

1 406

0.06%

IFP

1 388

0.06%

UCDP

1 194

0.05%

PAMSA

759

0.03%

Total Valid Votes

2 180 464

Spoilt Votes

32 657

Total Votes Cast

2 213 121

Registered voters

3 240 059

Turn out

68.3%

Source: IEC

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