In  terms  of  percentages,  these  figures  showed  that  Bulawayo  was  still  the  lowest,  at  34.6%   registration.  Harare  followed  at  41.1%,  and  Matabeleland  South  at  43.6%.  Mashonaland  West  at   42.9%  also  remained  low.         The  fourth  phase  of  the  Blitz  ended  on  19  December,  and  registration  figures  continued  to  rise   during  this  time,  with  figures  as  shown  in  the  table  below.  The  pattern  of  lower-­‐than-­‐hoped-­‐for   registration  in  Bulawayo,  Matabeleland  South  and  Harare  continued.  Bulawayo  reached  52.4%  of   anticipated  voters  registered,  with  Harare  at  55.4%  and  Matabeleland  South  at  59.9%  -­‐  the  only   three  provinces  still  below  60%  registered.  Mashonaland  Central  had  the  highest  percentage   registered,  at  77.4%,  with  Mashonaland  East,  Midlands,  Masvingo  and  Manicaland  all  having  above   70%  registered.  Matabeleland  North  also  showed  a  surge  in  registrations,  to  76.8%  registration,  the   second  highest  after  Mashonaland  Central.  Numerically  however,  Matabeleland  North  only  had   299,112  registered  voters,  putting  it  only  slightly  ahead  of  Matabeleland  South  and  Bulawayo.   These  three  provinces  remained  the  only  three  with  less  than  300,000  registered  voters  each.         Graph  5       BVR  Numbers:   19   December  2017  (ZEC) 800000 746173 651483 658701 700000 600000 551390 500000 520750 543484 480072 400000 300000 299112 214620 213697 200000 100000 0       In  Bulawayo,  the  increase  by  almost  20%  in  registration  in  less  than  three  weeks  does  seem  to   reflect  some  increase  in  enthusiasm  for  registering  there,  in  keeping  with  post  ‘coup’  observations.   Bulawayo  also  achieved  more  registered  voters  than  Matabeleland  South  for  the  first  time,   although  still  behind  in  percentage  terms.  There  were  73,000  voters  registered  in  Bulawayo  during   this  fourth  phase,  considerably  more  than  in  any  other  phase  of  equal  length  –  although  still  fewer   than  in  any  other  province  during  Phase  4.         31