# ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the party lodged nine-thousand-128 candidates across all nine provinces for the local government election. Of these, eight-thousand-947 candidates were registered with the Electoral Commission, representing ward seats and proportional seats. Mbalula says 181 candidates did not complete the final electronic registration step. He says these include 130 proportional and 51 ward candidates, affecting six councils in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State:
ANC lodges more than 9,000 election candidates [SOUND]
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