The Independent Electoral Commission has given clarity over the elections dashboard following the IEC updated the election dashboard with regional votes, moving the ANC from the initial 6 million votes to 12 million. The latest numbers, with the additional regional votes, also revealed that the kingmakers of the KZN province which is the NFP failed to get much needed votes to secure a seat in the KZN legislature.

On Sunday, uMkhonto weSizwe Party leader and former President Jacob Zuma said at a media briefing that they have evidence that there were 9 million votes that were unaccounted for. This is also part of the MKP's court papers which were submitted to the IEC about the irregularities and vote rigging allegations. Vote rigging allegations emerged on May 30 when the results dashboard crashed for two hours during the counting of the elections.

The confusion around the new numbers forced the IEC to address the issue of vote rigging and seat allocations. In a statement, IEC CEO Sy Mamabolo said the commission has noted some confusion with the update of the Elections Dashboard to reflect the total number of votes from the two National Assembly ballots and final seat allocation out of 400 seats for the 2024 National and Provincial Elections. "In the 2024 elections, registered voters received two ballots for the National Assembly elections, one national ballot and one regional ballot and the 3rd election ballot was for the provincial elections," Mamabolo said in the statement. He added that just over 16 million registered voters voted, casting about 31.92 million ballots across the 9 regional and 1 national ballot. "The Electoral Act prescribes that for the calculation of compensatory seats both national compensatory (N) ballots and regional (R) ballots are taken into account hence the demotion of N and R on the results dashboard," the statement said.