Beverly Bizeki
Masvingo province recorded a total of 3 130 new voter registrants according to statistics released by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) provincial office.
ZEC Deputy Elections Officer Maxwell Ncube confirmed the statistics and said the number of new voter registrants increased with about 7,9percent.
“The trend shows that statistics of new voter registrants are on the rise and this is the norm as we move towards elections.
“The increase in voter registrants is also owed to Civil Society Organizations and some political parties encouraging people to register,” said Ncube.
Of the new registered voters, 1595 are women while 1535 are men.
The figures for this month show that the number of women has increased as compared to the previous month where more men registered to vote as compared to women.
The office also recorded a total of 665 transfers of which 396 are women while 269 are men.
In August, 2900 people registered to vote with 1351 women and 1549 men.
As at May 30, 2022, statistics at ZEC showed that the province had 632 346 registered people with women accounting for close to 57percent of the registrants.
The commission is yet to embark on the much-awaited constituency delimitation that is set to be carried out before the upcoming 2023 elections.
