There are too few to provide reliable trends from yesterday’s local polls.

And the outcome of the closest-fought municipalities are not expected until much later today.

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Political Party officials  on the floor of the  Independent Electoral Commission Results Centres point to the metropolitan areas on tally board.

They says the outcome from any one of these can dramatically change the slowly emerging picture.

IEC chief executive Mosotho Moepya says the closest fought metropoles of Pretoria, Johannesburg and  Port Elizabeth are among the largest of the more than 200 municipalities.

He expects them to keep him and his team here until much later today

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