Idols SA Season 3 was a competition held from August to November in 2005. The voting results were released on 1 December 2005.
M-Net followed up on its promise to release voting details for the third season of Idols South Africa, which saw 11 contestants fall by the wayside and eventually revealed Karin Kortjé as the winner.
Over 10 million votes were cast this season, making Idols SA Season 3 the most successful in 2005.
M-Net has also released the audited voting numbers after previous seasons of the competition, in exactly the same fashion.
The results which appear below are based on votes received from the public via SMS, IVR, and on the Idols website, together with the judges’ rankings.
The Idols SA judges ranked the contestants directly after the show on a Sunday, long before 18:35 on Mondays, when the public voting lines closed.
Carl Fischer, Head of Local Productions at M-Net believes that this information will put a variety of rumours regarding the voting – generated by a minority of viewers – to rest.
“We can confirm that winner Karin topped the public voting throughout the Top 12 phase of the competition, justifying her position as winner of Idols SA Season 3,” he says.
The statistics for the competition from the Group phase, through to the Final, appear below.
Each contestant’s number of votes is represented by a percentage of the total, with the total number of votes received for each voting period reflected in the total for each week.
Votes were accepted via a 08622777+ phone number, voting of the contestant’s name via SMS to 33676 & finally an online voting option via the official website.
During the semi-finals, the top 2 vote-getters advanced to the finals.
It is not clear if the release factored in the 49% leverage of the judges’ votes or are viewer votes only.
List of Contents
Group 1 (30 August 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Deidré Visser | 23.90% |
| Pume Zondi | 21.96% |
| Veronique De Lange | 17.39% |
| Bonolo Molosiwa | 17.11% |
| Cecile Du Preez | 11.38% |
| Nosipho Zwane | 8.26% |
Total votes: 306,827
Group 2 (6 September 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Karin Kortje | 26.82% |
| Martelize Van Niekerk | 20.21% |
| Jessica Lourenco | 17.39% |
| Jamie-Lee Blokdyk | 17.21% |
| Karabo Moleke | 13.02% |
| Bernice Breedt | 5.35% |
Total votes: 342,853
Group 3 (12 September 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Nhlanhla Mwelse | 27.99% |
| Gift Gwe | 23.23% |
| Romie Noval | 13.70% |
| Callan Maloney | 13.21% |
| Mthawelanga Nkonzo | 12.35% |
| Bjorn Hartnick | 9.52% |
Total votes: 211,629
Group 4 (19 September 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Kesha Charlton-Perkins | 27.40% |
| Veronique Lalouette | 22.06% |
| Ayanda Mpama | 21.38% |
| Nthabiseng Roro | 11.95% |
| Tumelo Thulare | 8.85% |
| Bianca Bronn | 8.36% |
Total votes: 199,838
Note:
Because there was a conflict of names, Veronique Lalouette chose V as her stage name & Veronique De Lange chose Nicky, this applied primarily to SMS votes.
Top 12 (26 September 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Karin Kortje | 14.76% |
| Martelize Van Niekerk | 14.41% |
| Nhlanhla Mwelse | 12.17% |
| Nicky De Lange | 10.31% |
| Kesha Charlton-Perkins | 8.66% |
| Deidré Visser | 8.21% |
| V Lalouette | 7.38% |
| Gift Gwe | 5.63% |
| Pume Zondi | 5.57% |
| Ayanda Mpama | 4.92% |
| Bonolo Molosiwa | 4.11% |
| Jamie-Lee Blokdyk | 3.87% (Eliminated) |
Total votes: 398,008
Top 11 (3 October 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Karin Kortje | 16.11% |
| Nhlanhla Mwelse | 15.35% |
| Martelize Van Niekerk | 12.15% |
| Gift Gwe | 11.56% |
| Nicky De Lange | 9.06% |
| V Lalouette | 8.75% |
| Kesha Charlton-Perkins | 7.17% |
| Deidré Visser | 6.86% |
| Pume Zondi | 6.77% |
| Ayanda Mpama | 4.70% |
| Bonolo Molosiwa | 1.52% (Eliminated) |
Total votes: 456,535
Top 10 (11 October 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Karin Kortje | 16.40% |
| Gift Gwe | 14.10% |
| Deidré Visser | 12.35% |
| Nicky De Lange | 10.69% |
| Ayanda Mpama | 10.54% |
| Martelize Van Niekerk | 10.20% |
| V Lalouette | 9.39% |
| Nhlanhla Mwelse | 7.94% |
| Kesha Charlton-Perkins | 6.35% |
| Pume Zondi | 2.04% (Eliminated) |
Total votes: 659,809
Top 9 (17 October 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Karin Kortje | 17.28% |
| V Lalouette | 14.51% |
| Gift Gwe | 12.16% |
| Nhlanhla Mwelse | 11.16% |
| Nicky De Lange | 10.57% |
| Ayanda Mpama | 9.56% |
| Deidré Visser | 9.29% |
| Martelize Van Niekerk | 8.80% |
| Kesha Charlton-Perkins | 6.67% (Eliminated) |
Total votes: 598,919
Top 8 (24 October 2005)
– There was no elimination this week.
Total votes: 723,906
Top 8 (31 October 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Karin Kortje | 22.22% |
| V Lalouette | 17.06% |
| Nhlanhla Mwelse | 12.92% |
| Gift Gwe | 12.08% |
| Nicky De Lange | 11.85% |
| Ayanda Mpama | 9.92% |
| Deidré Visser | 7.03% (Eliminated) |
| Martelize Van Niekerk | 6.92 (Eliminated) |
Total votes: 758,659
Top 6 (7 November 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Karin Kortje | 28.57% |
| Nicky De Lange | 21.48% |
| Gift Gwe | 17.79% |
| V Lalouette | 16.13% |
| Nhlanhla Mwelse | 9.52% |
| Ayanda Mpama | 6.51% (Eliminated) |
Total votes: 818,046
Top 5 (14 November 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Karin Kortje | 30.88% |
| Nicky De Lange | 25.03% |
| V Lalouette | 18.37% |
| Gift Gwe | 16.60% |
| Nhlanhla Mwelse | 9.12% (Eliminated) |
Total votes: 1,074,568
Top 4 (21 November 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Karin Kortje | 32.64% |
| Gift Gwe | 29.80% |
| Nicky De Lange | 23.87% (Eliminated) |
| V Lalouette | 13.68% (Eliminated) |
Total votes: 1,788,291
Grand Finale (27 November 2005)
| Contestant | Percentage Of Votes |
| Karin Kortje | 62.58% (Winner) |
| Gift Gwe | 37.42% (Runner-up) |
Total votes: 1,894,395
Total season votes: 10,232,283
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