The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR) Prof. Pravesh Debba says South Africa’s voter turnout has been in constant decline since the 2009 election.
The voter turnout for the 2024 national election stands at 58% which the CSIR accurately predicted.
With just over 97% of the national results being released, the African National Congress (ANC) is maintaining a lead of just over 40%, indicating that the party has lost its majority.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has garnered nearly 22% of the votes thus far and the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party is just under 15% of the votes.
Debba says, “We did predictions for the voter turnout early on Thursday. We had made a prediction that our voter turnout would be around 58% and we were on the mark so you know we’d be quite pleased with that. If you look at 2009 the voter turnout was around 75% in 2014 it had dropped to 72% in 2019 it had dropped quite a bit by to 65%.”
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