INEC has revealed the top 6 Nigerian states with the highest number of registered voters.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that following the announcement of the preliminary register of voters for the 2023 general election by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu yesterday, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Rivers, Katsina and Oyo states have been reported to have the highest number of registered voters.
This online media platform gathered that a breakdown of the preliminary register shows that Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Rivers, Katsina, and Oyo States have the highest number of registered voters in the country.
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According to the preliminary voter register, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, and Rivers states lead with 7,075,192, 5,927,565, 4,345,469, and 3,532,990, respectively, while Katsina has 3,519,260 and Oyo, with 3,275,045.
In a newspaper report, a further breakdown in percentages reveals that Lagos has 7.57 %, Kano, 6.34 %, Kaduna, 4.65 %, Rivers, 3.77 %, Katsina and Oyo have 3.76 %, and 3.51% respectively.
Checks indicate that voters in the six states constitute 27.68m or 29.59 percent of the entire registered voters of 93.5 million.
Further breakdown of the preliminary register shows that the seven states, (Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, and Jigawa), in the North-West geopolitical zone, has a total of 22.27 million voters, which is considered the highest number of registered voters.
This shows an increase in the zone’s registered voters because in 2019 North-West had 20.15million voters, but now it has risen to 22,27 million, meaning the zone got an additional 2.12 million voters between 2019 and now.
The South-West, which has six states ( Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Ekiti, Lagos, and Ogun states) also recorded an increase in its voter register, the zone had 16.29 million voters in 2019, but now has 17.93 million voters, meaning an additional 1.64 million were newly-registered.
This was followed by the six states in the South-South zone (Akwa-Ibom, Rivers, Cross-River, Bayelsa, Edo, and Delta) which recorded an increase of 2.4 million new registered voters. The zone had 12.8 million in 2019 and now has 14.4 million.
It was also gathered that the North-Central, which is made up of Nasarawa, Kogi, Benue, Niger Kwara, and Plateau now has a total of 13.8 million voters while the North-East which consists of Yobe, Borno, Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi, and Gombe added 1.07 million new voters to reach 12.5 million.
The South-East, which is the smallest geopolitical zone, with five states (Ebonyi, Enugu, Abia, Anambra, and Imo) now has a total of 10.9 million voters while the Federal Capital Territory increased from 1.3 million to 1.5 million registered voters.
The preliminary voters register also revealed that Lagos still held its position as the state with the highest number of registered voters, increasing its figure from 6.5 million to 7.07 million.
Followed by Kano and Kaduna with 5.9 million and 4.3 million respectively.
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Also, Rivers state overtook Katsina to be the fourth largest state in terms of voters with 3.53 million, while Katsina has 3.51 million voters.
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