{"id":44,"date":"2026-09-08T11:24:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/?p=44"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:35:07","slug":"2026-local-government-elections-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"2026 Local Government Elections &amp; Polling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The upcoming <strong>4 November 2026 Local Government Elections<\/strong> represent a major realignment in South African politics. This is the first municipal poll following the creation of the national multi-party Government of National Unity (GNU). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Johannesburg Crunch:<\/strong> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.org.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC)<\/a> confirmed that the City of Johannesburg has recorded the <strong>highest number of political parties<\/strong> contesting Proportional Representation (PR) seats in history. According to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-za\/key-metros-remain-battlegrounds-ahead-november-local-government-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ipsos Pulse of the People study<\/a>, the ANC&#8217;s 31% to the DA&#8217;s 28% margin mirrors their 2021 results (33.6% vs 26.5%), confirming that neither party can secure an outright majority without local coalition partners. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iec-logo.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming 4 November 2026 Local Government Elections represent a major realignment in South African politics. This is the first municipal poll following the creation of the national multi-party Government of National Unity (GNU).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenmicradio.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}