The Democratic Alliance retained its seat in yesterday’s by-election in Beaufort West Municipality – WC053 in the Western Cape.
The new councillor for ward 7 is Jacob Jeffrey van der Linde. The party retained the seat it won in the 2016 Municipal Elections, increasing its margin to 56.95% of the votes cast compared to 46.84% in the 2016 Municipal Elections. Voter turnout yesterday was 67.56% compared to 54.94% in the elections.
The detailed results are available on the IEC website at www.elections.org.za.
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Ensuring free, fair and credible elections
Centurion
25 May 2017
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