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#SAElections2019: DA wins one home and one away

Elections are all about winning – winning the right to govern the country, winning control of provinces, winning seats in Parliament, and winning as much support as possible.

For the Democratic Alliance (DA), it was a case of two victories – one home and one away.

The EFF was the biggest winner in these elections. This is how it did it

The EFF is without a doubt the biggest winner to step out of this week’s polls, which were a bloody arena for the governing party and the official opposition.

The party’s second national general elections saw the fighters walk off with a bounty of increased support across all provinces with the additional bonus of official opposition status in Mpumalanga.

In the EFF’s maiden election it managed to become the second-highest ranking party in Limpopo and the North West.

Why the ANC dropped by 10% in KZN

Voters gatvol over service delivery problems stayed away or spoiled their votes in numbers to give the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) a bloody nose, while an energetic EFF added to the ruling party’s pain.

Support for the ANC in KZN in the national poll fell nearly 10 percentage points, from 65.31% in the 2014 poll to this week’s 55.47%.

And the ruling party’s reduced share of the vote in the country’s second most populous province had a knock-on effect on its overall national result.