Municipal by-elections scheduled for 28 January 2009

[DWPTA]

Municipal by-elections scheduled for 28 January 2009

Municipal ward by-elections will take place on Wednesday, 28 January 2009 in the Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and the Northern Cape.

The Electoral Commission confirmed that 27 vacant wards will be contested by 106 candidates of whom 13 are independent candidates while the other 93 represent 12 political parties.

Read here for all the wards

 

[BBSA]

Read here for all the wards

Seems like the ANC did better than expected:

The ANC triumphed in 23 of the 27 wards which were contested in six provinces in Wednesday's by-election, according to the Independent Electoral Commission.

The by-elections were held in the Eastern Cape, the Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu Natal, Limpopo and the Northern Cape.

The Congress of the People took two wards, while the Democratic Alliance and the Independent Democrats won one each.

A total of 45 733 people cast their votes out of the 111 325 who registered, according to the IEC's summary report

Idiots voting for idiots

 

[Gothan]

MY questions, how many of these by-elections were in anc strongholds, or previously belonged to the ANC. The two seats that cope took, where they previously ANC seats? What about the DA and ID?


The report is very sketchy, as you come to expect when news24 reports on the ANC

 

[DWPTA]

You can download a comparison report from my website. The feature is available on the IEC's website for the future.

 

[samuelp]

ANC lost 3 Municipal Wards.

Inkhata seems to be disbanded. ANC will probably win the next elections, unfortunately (I don't say ANC is incompetent, but alternance is good for a country)

 

[BBSA]

ANC lost 3 Municipal Wards.

Inkhata seems to be disbanded. ANC will probably win the next elections, unfortunately (I don't say ANC is incompetent, but alternance is good for a country)

Why not, are they not the party who killed the best crime fighting unit in a country with one of the higist crime rates in the World?