ZESN - Promoting Democratic Elections in Zimbabwe Table 3: Distribution of Registered Voters by Urban/Rural location Age group Urban Rural Total 18 - 19 20 - 24 25 - 29 30 - 34 35 - 39 40 - 44 45 - 49 50 - 54 55 - 59 60 - 64 65 - 69 70 - 74 75 - 79 80 - 84 85 - 89 90 - 94 95 - 99 100 - 104 105 - 109 110+ Total 57820 273695 274778 287564 263590 205933 156413 95629 71047 56512 33125 17771 10131 4801 2104 497 144 19 3 2 1 811 578 131616 508152 455226 499649 487131 421973 330825 200459 216191 202693 156716 109850 79868 42006 28848 7790 4167 742 168 58 3 884 128 189436 781847 730004 787213 750721 627906 487238 296088 287238 259205 189841 127621 89999 46807 30952 8287 4311 761 171 60 5 695 706 When the number of registered voters is viewed by urban/rural location, the analysis showed that the majority of registrants (68.2%) are rural residents while only 3 in 10 (31.8%) stay in urban areas. %total registrants Urban Rural 1.0% 2.3% 4.8% 8.9% 4.8% 8.0% 5.0% 8.8% 4.6% 8.6% 3.6% 7.4% 2.7% 5.8% 1.7% 3.5% 1.2% 3.8% 1.0% 3.6% 0.6% 2.8% 0.3% 1.9% 0.2% 1.4% 0.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 31.8% 68.2% statistically significant (t = 1.177, p>0.01). Table 4 below is a comparison of the eligible versus actual registered voters. Table 4: A Summary of Eligible versus Actual Registered Voters Across all age groups, the FVR showed that more registered voters came from rural than urban areas. For the younger generations (39 years and below) this urban-rural difference in proportions of registered voters was even bigger. Gender Men Women Total FVR 2 622 516 3 073 190 5 695 706 Projected Difference %Difference Census 2018 3 349 462 -726946 -21.70 3 874 665 -801475 -20.69 7 224 128 -1 528 421 -21.16 Overall, 21% of the projected population did not register to vote. 7.2 Duplicates Cases in the Final Voters' Roll To identify duplicates, ZESN's analysis focused mainly on the voter's national identity number (ID). The analysis pointed to suspicious cases with different permutations: 65536 voters with duplicate names; 4862 voters with duplicate names and date of births; 7416 voters with duplicate names and address; and 2 voters with the same name, date of birth, and address. Urban Registrants against Census Populations When ZESN examined the population of urban registrants, it found out that the FVR urban population was generally lower than census data except for adult Zimbabweans aged 45-49 years. Figure 1 below shows the numbers of urban registrants and the census populations 7.3 Comparison of the Final Voters' roll with ZIMSTAT Census Data and Projections Generally, the FVR population of registrants was lower than census data, but the difference was not 31 REPORT ON THE 30 JULY 2018 HARMONISED ELECTIONS ZESN