The Northern Cape is the first province to declare its final results in the 2014 national and provincial elections, with the ANC winning 64.4% of votes in the province.
According to IEC results, the ANC won 272 053 votes, while the DA won 100 916 votes, or 23.89% of the vote.
There were a total of 422 431 valid votes, with 6 106 votes in the province being spoilt, according to the IEC.
Even if the DA was to get all the remaining votes still to be counted, around 150 000, it still could not surpass the ANC.
In the 2009 election the ANC got 61% and Cope 15.9%.The DA got 13%.
Mpumalanga and the Western Cape are set to be the next provinces to declare results, with over 90% of votes captured. Only just over a third of Gauteng’s votes have been captured.
Cape Town - The Democratic Alliance appeared set to retain the Western Cape after 90% of votes cast had been captured by late Thursday afternoon.
Early indications were that the party was set to increase its support.
The DA had taken just over a million of the votes captured so far - an almost 60% share of the ballots, compared to 51% in 2009.
The African National Congress attracted just under 33% of voters in the province.
It was unclear whether the numbers would change much, with the results from only 119 voting districts still outstanding.
New kids on the block, the Economic Freedom Fighters, caused an upset for other smaller parties, garnering 2% of the Western Cape vote so far.
Representatives
The African Christian Democratic Party was hovering at just over 1% of the vote, while all other parties, including the Congress of the People and the Freedom Front Plus, had so far failed to reach 1%.
Party representatives were trying to calculate how many of the 42 seats in the Western Cape legislature they would fill.
The IEC said a clearer picture of seat allocation would only emerge later on Thursday night.
Earlier, in the day, IEC provincial electoral officer Courtney Sampson said it was the first time vote-capturing had progressed so speedily.
There was a prediction that voter turnout could have increased this election.
"The assumption that I make is that it could be quite a turnout," he said.
Pretoria - The African National Congress had a healthy lead in Gauteng with 53.89% of votes counted so far by Thursday afternoon.
The party had 727 241 votes in the province compared to the Democratic Alliance's 435 926, which gave the opposition 32.30% of the ballot in Gauteng.
By 17.30 the Economic Freedom Fighters had 8.36% or 112 801 votes.
There were six million registered voters in Gauteng.
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