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Ghanaian Politics

Limited voter registration: EC records 522,025 new voters

By : cd on 22 May 2024, 07:00     |     Source: christian ahorgah

Samuel Tettey, Deputy EC Chair, Operations

As of Sunday, May 19, the Electoral Commission (EC) reported that 522,025 people were registered to vote.

The commission described in detail how voters were distributed among the different regions: The Greater Accra region had 74,420 voters, or 14.3% of the total; the North East region had 14,147 voters, or 2.7%; the Upper East region had 20,135 voters, or 3.9%; and the Northern region had 47,948 voters, or 9.2%.

Samuel Tetteh, the Deputy Commissioner in Charge of Operations at the EC, revealed this information on Tuesday at a press conference in Accra.

The Bono region had 20,886 registered voters (4%), the Bono East region had 18,861 voters (3.6%), the Volta region had 26,486 voters (5.1%), the Upper West region had 15,652 voters (4.0%), the Eastern region had 48,563 voters (9.3%), and the Central region had 56,141 voters (10.8%). More information was provided by the speaker.

10,861 voters (2.1%) were registered in the Ahafo region; 90,480 voters (17.3%) in the Ashanti region; 16,225 voters (3.1%) in the Western North region; 14,844 voters (2.8%) in the Oti region; 12,767 voters (2.4%); and 33,609 voters (6.4%) in the Savannah region.

 

 

Tetteh reported that of the total number of voters who were registered, 246,455 were male (47.21%) and 275,570 were female (52.79%).