DA secures Cape Town and 4 WC municipalities as hung councils mount to 13
With the DA’s retention of the Cape Town metro all but a done deal, it’s now closely watching how many other municipalities it can add to its tally.
Lindsay Dentlinger
Election observers at the ROC in Cape Town
After having claimed an early victory in the City of Cape Town today, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has also secured 4 municipalities outside of the metro so far.
The number of hung councils, however, continues to grow, currently standing at 13 of the 25 councils in the Western Cape.
As the DA keeps a close watch on Garden Route municipalities where it’s always been touch and go for the party, it’s had to concede the small, rural municipality of Prince Albert to rivals, the Patriotic Alliance.
With the DA’s retention of the Cape Town metro all but a done deal, it’s now closely watching how many other municipalities it can add to its tally.
With 63% of voting districts captured, the DA has sewn up the Swartland, Berg River, Drakenstein and Hessequa municipalities.
By 17h30, the party had secured 54% of the vote in the province, with the ANC trailing with 13.85% and the Patriotic Alliance 10.1%.
In the City of Cape Town, the DA is leading with more than 60% of the vote, but only 36 of the vote has so far been tallied.
The ANC is running in second with 10% of the vote.
Other than the DA, the Patriotic Alliance is the only party so far to take outright control of a council with an early morning win in Prince Albert.
ActionSA also has reason to celebrate in the Western Cape tonight.
It’s the leading party in the Laingsburg municipality, where it will have to form a coalition to govern, with only a percentage separating it from the DA and ANC, which were neck and neck.