The ANC won 22 seats in the provincial poll while the FF+ just missed out on a seat with 11 018 votes, falling 4000 votes short of the 15 000 benchmark this year.<\/p>\n
The ANC’s list is comprised of mostly incumbent legislators.<\/p>\n
For the BRA, the seat means a welcome financial injection for the association to formalize into a political party, rather than a mere lobby group in its current form as a residents association.<\/p>\n
Without proper financial management, BRA could walk the same path as Cope who gained a single seat in the 2009 elections.<\/p>\n
A dark cloud of financial mismanagement is still hanging over Zale Madonsela, Cope’s 2009 candidate, who is yet to provide a balanced report on unaccounted for constituency, and caucus funds.<\/p>\n
The DA gained one extra seat in the legislature with two Steve Tshwete locals, Anthony Benadie (DA leader) and Bosman Grobler (former district council councillor) taking the first and thirds.<\/p>\n
Jane Sithole will take up her seat for the DA.<\/p>\n
Four Mpumalanga residents will head to parliament under the DA banner, they are James Masongo (Secunda), Tarnia Baker (Secunda), Sonja Boshoff (Lydenburg) and Henro Kruger (eMalahleni).<\/p>\n
The DA also gained one seat in the second house of parliament, the National Council of Provinces, and the candidate will be announced following a brain scrum by the party’s federal executive.<\/p>\n
The DA lost 22 000 votes, and another seat, to the FF+, ACDP, Cope and Agang whose voters expressed their democratic right.<\/p>\n
In total the DA lost 109 000 votes provincially to all the opposition parties combined.<\/p>\n
Of the 400 seats in parliament, the ANC got 249, the DA 89, the EFF 25, followed by the IFP with 10, the NFP with 6, the UDM and FF+ with four each and Cope, the ACDP and the AIC with three seats each.<\/p>\n
New kid on the block, Agang, obtained two parliamentary seats while the PAC and APC each won a single seat.<\/p>\n
Nationally, the ANC garnered 62,15% of all votes compared to the DA’s 22,23%.<\/p>\n
Provincially, the DA obtained 10,4% of votes compared to the ANC’s landslide victory of 78,23%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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