{"id":24680,"date":"2013-10-24T15:35:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T13:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2013\/10\/da-landslide-ward-5-win\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T13:35:32","slug":"da-landslide-ward-5-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/da-landslide-ward-5-win\/","title":{"rendered":"DA landslide Ward 5 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The DA romped home with an increased majority victory in yesterday\u2019s by-election in Ward 5 of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>The DA candidate, Morn\u00e9 Steyn, polled 2 302 votes which is 94,5% of the vote, up from 85% in 2011. The ANC polled 108 votes, dropping from 12% in 2011 to 4,5%.\u00a0 The UDM received a meagre 24 votes.\u00a0 There were 18 spoiled papers.<\/p>\n<p>The electorate has given the DA a massive show of confidence ahead of the 2014 elections and WITH THIS CONTINUED SWING we will take the Metro in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This stunning victory highlights the irony of the ANC candidate\u2019s campaign slogan (Bring hope back to our city). The residents have resoundingly identified the party that represents hope, opportunity and change as the DA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bobby Stevenson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>These businesses support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a> supports PE business:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DA romped home with an increased majority victory in yesterday\u2019s by-election in Ward 5 of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Municipality. The DA candidate, Morn\u00e9 Steyn, polled 2 302 votes which is 94,5% of the vote, up from 85% in 2011. The ANC polled 108 votes, dropping from 12% in 2011 to 4,5%.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3330],"tags":[3338,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-24680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-port-elizabeth","7":"tag-mype-co-za","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}