{"id":130028,"date":"2016-08-08T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/130028\/anc-takes-metro\/"},"modified":"2016-08-09T11:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T09:18:47","slug":"anc-takes-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/08\/anc-takes-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC gets most votes in Ekurhuleni metro and most of the wards in Germiston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The votes have been counted and the IEC has announced the results.<\/p>\n<p>In Ekurhuleni, the ANC got the most votes with 48.64 per cent; the DA came second with 33.65 per cent and the EFF third with 11.23 per cent of the votes, according to the IEC website.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In Germiston, the ANC took wards 21 (52.43 per cent); 35 (47.95 per cent); 40 (64.49 per cent); 50 (81.77 per cent); 51 (68.41 per cent) and 93 (58.61 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>The DA won wards 20 (87.12 per cent); 36 (80.03 per cent); 39 (80.9 per cent) and 92 (72.98 per cent).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In Gauteng the ANC got 45.85 per cent of the votes, followed by the DA with 37.21 per cent and then the EFF with 11.38 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>In the country as a whole, the ANC garnered 53.91 per cent of the votes, followed by the DA on 26.89 per cent and the EFF with 8.2 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/129887\/anc-leading-results-board-in-metro\/\" target=\"_blank\">ANC leading results board in metro<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/129840\/germiston-wards-show-mixed-bag-of-results-so-far\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tight race between ANC and DA in metro so far<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/129723\/residents-come-out-in-droves-to-make-their-mark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Residents come out in droves to make their mark<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='74eafb585a73eb6f958fe7d509db0ed8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC took most of the support in both Ekurhuleni and in Germiston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":129768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1003,2213,11612,979,969,11576,2734,1002,10120,1004],"class_list":["post-130028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-elections","tag-elections-2016","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-local-government-elections","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipal-elections","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","elections","Elections 2016","germiston","germiston city news","local government elections","melissa hart","metro","municipal elections","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}