The Voting Booth | 18 October 2026

JOHANNESBURG - The Voting Booth, eNCA’s special elections programme, unpacks the findings of the eNCA–MarkData survey, conducted across six of South Africa’s metropolitan municipalities, offering a snapshot of voter sentiment ahead of the Local Government Elections on Wednesday, 4 November.

We reveal which parties and candidates voters say they intend to support in Cape Town and Johannesburg, two of the country’s key metropolitan battlegrounds.

But there’s more to these findings than voting intentions.

We explore why voters feel the way they do, the issues that matter most to them, and what their responses reveal about the political and governance challenges facing our cities.

What are voters saying? What is shaping their choices? And what could these findings tell us about the road ahead?

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