South Africans voted in national and provincial elections. The ANC received 65.90 percent of valid votes and 264 of 400 National Assembly seats, below the two-thirds threshold and lower than its 2004 result. COPE, formed by former ANC members, won 7.42 percent and 30 seats, making the contest a test of the ruling party’s support and the opposition’s reorganisation.
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