The Electoral Commission collated and captured about 60% of the 66 073 results, as of 17h00, on Thursday afternoon.
Speaking to media at the IEC Centre, in Johannesburg, Mosotho Moepya, Chairperson of the IEC, said about 40,202 results slips were scanned, while 32,238 went through independent auditing, as part of the Commission’s quality assurance processes.
About 31% of municipalities have completed the capturing, scanning, auditing and exception processes. This amounts to 65 of the total 213.
About 87% of capturing was completed in the Northern Cape, 69% in the Western Cape, 60% in the Eastern Cape, 64% in the Free Stats, 52% in Mpumalanga, 37,% in KwaZulu-Natal, and about 35% in both the North West and Gauteng, while only 23% in Limpopo.
Moepya said results could be tallied by this weekend.
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