Many more eligible citizens have registered in the Greater Accra Area as compared to the 15 various other regions since the mass voter enrollment exercise started on June 30, 2020.
It constitutes 20% of the complete voters’ registration up until now. According to the Electoral Commission
This is followed by the Ashanti Region (18.4%), Eastern Region (9.5%) and Central Region (9.4%), with the North East Region at the bottom with 1.7%.
The Greater Accra Region has also recorded more voter eligibility challenges (1,391) than any other Region so far.
Provisional statistics available at the Electoral Commission show that 929,366 voters have so far been registered in the Greater Accra Region while in the Ashanti Region 816,481 have been registered, and 421,467 in the Eastern Region.
So far, Central Region has enrolled 415,799 voters, Western Region recorded 287,222; Volta Region marked 274,063, and Northern Region had 254, 575 voters penned down.
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The Bono Region has booked 177,424; 163,680 for Bono East; 147,365 for Upper East; 117,062 for Western North, and 115, 281 for Upper West.
At the bottom in terms of voters registered so far is North East with 76,854; followed by Savannah Region with 78,410; Oti Region with 83,799; and Ahafo Region with 86,498 voters.
The Electoral Commission has in all registered 4,445,346 voters nationwide. This represents 30% of the Commission’s target of 15 million voters and covers both the first and second phases of the exercise from Tuesday, June 30 to Saturday, July 11, 2020.
The Commission projects that if the current trend continues, “Greater Accra Region alone will constitute more than 20% of the total registered voters” going into the December Presidential and Parliamentary polls.
