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IEC
SOUTH AFRICA
MEDIA STATEMENT
17 June 2024
Electoral Commission clarifies Elections Results Dashboard update following seat allocation
The Electoral Commission notes the conversation and some confusion with the update of the Elections Results Dashboard last week to reflect the total number of votes from the 2 National Assembly ballots and final seat allocation (out of 400 seats) for the 2024 National and Provincial Elections.
In the 2024 elections registered voters received 2 ballots for the National Assembly elections: 1 National ballot and 1 Regional ballot, (the 3rd election ballot was for the provincial elections). Just over 16 million registered voters voted, casting some 31.92 million ballots across the 9 regional and 1 national ballot.
The Electoral Act prescribes that for the calculation of compensatory seats both national compensatory (N) ballots and regional (R) ballots are taken into account. Hence the demotion of N + R on the results dashboard
This is done to ensure that the allocation of compensatory seats take into account the regional strength of all political parties. Thus, meeting the proportional representation in general demanded by the constitution
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