https://vxlabs.com/tags/south-africa/ Recent content in South Africa on vxlabs Hugo en-us Tue, 28 May 2019 22:26:00 +0200 https://vxlabs.com/2019/05/28/sa-elections-votes-to-seats/ Tue, 28 May 2019 22:26:00 +0200 https://vxlabs.com/2019/05/28/sa-elections-votes-to-seats/ <p>On Wednesday, May 8, 2019, South Africans had the opportunity to elect their leaders for the coming five years by taking part in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_South_African_general_election#Voter_registration">2019 general election</a>.</p> <p>Of the 26727921 registered voters, 17671616 made their way to the ballots. Of these, 17436144 citizens managed to submit a valid vote.</p> <p>These 17M+ votes were then tallied up to determine how the 400 parliamentary seats would be allocated to each of the qualifying parties.</p>