The official result of South Africa’s fourth democratic election was announced on Saturday - 4 days after just more than 17 and a half million voters went to the polls.
According to the official results, the ANC won 65.9% of the votes, failing to secure a two-third majority. The Democratic Alliance remained the official opposition by taking 16.66% of the votes with new party COPE in third place with 7.24% of the total votes.
Brigalia Bam, chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission said that she has no doubt that the basic features of our democracy are great and also commended all parties and candidates for the peaceful manner in which they campaigned.
The results also showed that the ANC will have 264 seats in the national assembly, with the DA 67 seats and COPE 30 seats.
Provincially the ANC dominated 8 of the 9 provinces with Helen Zille’s DA winning an outright majority in the Western Cape.
New president Jacob Zuma will be inaugurated on the May 9.
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