EC revises voters' roll

The Electoral Commission (EC) has released the revised voters' register, which shows that the names of only 133,373 people have been removed from it.

The figures show that the voters' roll has come down to 10,706,037 from 10,839,410 after some names were removed from the list. The EC this year revised the electoral roll when it allowed those who had attained 18 years and others who had not registered, to do so. The EC said while some one million names were added to the register, only 133,373 names were removed.

Given the figures released after the population and housing census, the number of voters on the list is 58.14 per cent compared with 58.87 before the names were removed. The following are the provisional corrected figures of the voters' list compared with the 2000 population and Housing census.

Region Census Voters Register Percentage

National 18,412,256 10,706,037 58.14

Western 1,842,887 1,081,967 58.71

Central 1,580,047 867,980 54.93

Greater Accra 2,909,643 1,849,982 63.58

Volta 1,612,299 983,230 60.98

Eastern 2,108,852 1,189,004 56.38

Ashanti 3,187,601 1,975,551 61.97

Brong Ahafo 1,824,822 1,044,985 57.26

Northern 1,854,994 928,689 50.06

Upper East 917,251 479,685 52.29

Upper West 573,860 304,964 53.14