A total of 22,416 women have registered in the West Akyem Municipality of the Eastern Region to exercise their franchise in the December General Elections.
According to the Electoral Commission in the Municipality, the number is from phases one to four of the Voters Registration, and the number of men registered under the period is 20,783.
The EC in West Akyem Municipality has registered 43,199 potential voters from phase one to phase four which ended on 25th July 2020.
In an interview with Municipal Electoral Officer, Mr. Kwadwo Debrah-Gyamfi, said about 30,000 potential Voters are expected to be registered in phases five and six which is expected to end 6th August 2020.
Across the country, a total of 6,100,440 women as against 5,528,970 men have registered so far.
“At the end of the fourth phase, 480,851 18-year-olds had registered as voters. This figure represents 4.1 percent of the number of persons registered to date. 419,520 19-year-olds had also registered. So, in a nutshell, the 18- and 19-year-olds make up 7.7 percent of the register to date,” the EC boss Jean Mensa noted at a news conference in Accra Monday.
The Electoral Commission (EC) says as, on Sunday, July 26, 2020, a total number of 12,371,651 prospective voters had been successfully registered nationwide.
According to the Commission, the above figure represents 82.5% of the expected target of 15 million.
It also indicated that as at the end of the fourth phase of the voter’s registration exercise on Friday, July 24, 2020, it had registered at least 11,629,480 prospective voters.
Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, announced this to the media at the Let The Citizen Know press conference in Accra on Monday, July 27, 2020.
She noted that at the end of the fourth phase, the Greater Accra Region had the highest number of registrants; totaling 2,615,925.
According to her, the Ashanti Region came second with a total of 2,089,923 and the Eastern Region came third with a total of 1,084,734.
“After this, we had the Central Region with 1 1,074,519 people, the Western Region with 734,545 people, the Northern with 687,123, the Volta Region with 660,508 people, the Bono Region with 460,226, the Upper East Region with 409,825, the Bono East Region withb391,777, the Western North had 300,015, the Upper West Region, 299,480, the Oti Region with 226,109, the Ahafo Region with 212,670, the Savannah Region with 195,126, and finally the North East Region with 186,975,” she added.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
