Beverly Bizeki
Masvingo province has recorded 5726 new voter registrants in January according to statistics released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) office, TellZim News can report.
ZEC Deputy Elections Officer Maxwell Ncube confirmed the statistics and said the numbers of new voter registrants keep increasing towards elections.
“The statistics show that there is an increase from those recorded in December 2022 and this is largely because we are approaching election period,” said Ncube.
Of the 5 726 new registrants, 2764 are men whike 2962 are women.
“People are still coming through and the graph shows an increase, stakeholders, political parties and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are playing their part in getting people registered to vote as well as registration champions,” said Ncube.
The office also recorded 1630 transfers, 749 of which are men while 881 are women.
As at December 31, 2022 the province recorded 5 467 new voter registrants 2960 of which were women while 2507 were men.
