Nine million eligible voters not registered – IEC
Be heard – register to vote this weekend
Ahead of this weekend’s voter registration campaign, the Electoral Commission hopes that at least a million new voters will use the opportunity to register before the voters’ roll closes for the 2016 municipal elections.
These one million people are among the nine million unregistered, eligible voters in South Africa.
The voters’ roll as at 31 January 2016 showed that close on 25-million voters were registered. Based on latest voting age population (VAP) estimates provided by Statistics South Africa, there are currently some 34-million South African citizens of voting age, placing the current registration level at 73% of all eligible voters.
Of the approximately nine-million eligible voters not currently registered:
• About 1.5 million are 18 – 19 years old (16%)
• About 4.3 million are 20 – 29 years old (46%)
• About 1.6 million are 30 – 39 years old (18%)
• About 0.8 million are 40 – 49 years old (9%)
• About 1 million are over 50 years old (11%)
Provincially, the figures show Gauteng currently has the highest number of registered voters with 5 937 471, followed by KZN (5 056 518), Eastern Cape (3 161 535), Western Cape (2 900 567), Limpopo (2 436 112), Mpumalanga (1 827 935), North West (1 651 242), Free State (1 418 288) and Northern Cape (584 830). The statistics also show that almost one in three unregistered voters lives in Gauteng. KZN has some 1,4-million unregistered voters, or 15,5% of all unregistered voters.
