S.Africa's ANC gets 46% of vote in municipal elections -final count

Election officials count ballots after the closing of the local government elections, at a farm in Alewynspoort, outside Johannesburg, South Africa November 1, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's governing African National Congress took 46% of the vote in this week's municipal elections, the final count showed on Thursday, the party's worst election outcome since taking power at the end of white minority rule in 1994.

Figures from the electoral commission put the ANC's biggest rival, the Democratic Alliance, on 22% of the vote and the Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters on 10%.