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The African National Congress passed the million vote mark early this morning in the fifth democratic election in South Africa.
The early results showed the ANC had 1 100 000 votes, the Democratic Alliance 623 000 votes and the Economic Freedom Fighters 73 700 votes.
Representatives of the various political parties remain at the IEC results centre in Pretoria to keep an eye on the results as they continued to be updated.
IEC official Granville Abrahams says their systems reflect that they're at the low 20% mark of voting districts that have been captured.
Meanwhile the number of spoilt ballot papers, from those counted in early results, represented only a small percentage of
ballots cast.
Out of 1.8 million votes counted a short while ago, 24 800 were spoiled - or 1.3% of votes counted.
Leading up to election day, former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils and former deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge led the "Sidikiwe! Vukani! Vote No! Campaign".
The campaign was aimed at convincing struggle activists and others not to vote for the ANC, but rather to vote for a small political party -- not the Democratic Alliance -- or at least spoil their votes by writing "no" on the ballot paper.
They said this tactical voting would help deepen democracy through diminishing the ruling party's majority.
