{"id":50061,"date":"2026-11-05T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T10:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50061"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T10:47:50","slug":"da-leading-in-sa-province-metros-except-tshwane","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/da-leading-in-sa-province-metros-except-tshwane\/","title":{"rendered":"DA leading in SA province metros except Tshwane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">With 12% of voting districts declared in South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Gauteng province, the Democratic Alliance (DA) party is leading in all metros and municipalities except in the Tshwane Metro where Action SA is currently ahead.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The DA\u2019s strong performance places it in a favourable position across much of the province, although the picture remains fluid with the majority of voting districts still to be declared.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the City of Johannesburg, the DA is leading with 40% of the votes, followed by the African National Congress (ANC) with 17% of the votes and Action SA with 15% of the votes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In Ekurhuleni, the DA is also leading the race there with 42% of the votes, the ANC with 16% of the votes and Action SA with 19% of the votes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The picture however changes slightly in the city of Tshwane as the ANC, with 28% of support, is hot on the heels of the Action SA that has 29% of the votes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31616,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-50061","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The DA\u2019s strong performance places it in a favourable position across much of the province.","published_date":"","news_description":"The DA\u2019s strong performance places it in a favourable position across much of the province.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50063,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50061\/revisions\/50063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}