Fredrick Moyo
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) is currently in the process of preparing the drawing up of new National Assembly constituency boundaries that will be used in the upcoming 2023 general elections.
Speaking to TellZim News ZEC Deputy Provincial Elections Officer (PEO) Maxwell Ncube said they will start delimitation exercise as soon as the Housing and Population census release statistics from the just ended census exercise.
“We are currently conducting another phase of delimitation which is the registration process and delimitation is all about the numbers of people who are registered and that gives us the number of constituencies. So the registration process we are having is just to boost the numbers and we are going to use the numbers in the delimitation process.
“We also use the information from the just ended census as the law stipulates that delimitation should be done after census, so when we have census statistics that is when we will carry out the delimitation process,” said Ncube.
He added that the process is when constituencies and wards are created using the population of the area and encouraged people who want to register to vote to do so before the delimitation process is conducted.
“Delimitation is all about dividing the country into constituencies and wards so that is what we will be doing and it is a process which starts from registration and when we are about to do that, we are going to notify that we are going to have delimitation on such a date so that everybody interested will partake in the process and I also encourage people to come in their numbers to register before the delimitation process,” he added.
In the just ended voter mobile registration blitz Masvingo province registered a total number of 17 053 new registrants with 10 679 transfers.
