The Democratic Alliance (DA) can celebrate one thing: the got the most overseas votes and they won them by a land slide. It is a pity that they can not win by that margin when all the votes are put together. But then again, we asked this question before the elections with regards to how much these overseas votes would contribute to the bigger picture. The Democratic Alliance received 7 581 votes of the 9 857 cast from people who voted overseas. The African National Congress received 673 votes and the Congress of the People received 918.

What this result just goes to show is that the South Africans living overseas are not behind the ruling ANC party and that is probably the reason they left the country in the first place. And it is also interesting to note that COPE got more overseas votes than the ANC. Those in the diaspora really don’t like the ANC!