Zimbabwe Election Support Network
ZESN’S COMMENT ON THE ZEC BVR PROVISIONAL STATISTICS
23 March 2018 - Following several requests by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network
ZESN and other stakeholders for Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to release data,
on the numbers of voters registered disaggregated by province and gender, the ZEC
published the Biometric Voter Registration BVR data on its website in March 2018.
Analysis of the data indicates that registration was generally high across all provinces.
The BVR exercise resulted in higher numbers of youth and women registering as voters.
Below is a preliminary comparative analysis of the registration statistics using ZESN
Population Projections released in May 2017, based on the 2012 Population Census data.
ZESN will release a more detailed comparative analysis based on the 2013 voter turnout
in due course.
Table 1: ZESN 2017 Projections and BVR Statistics –Overall Picture
Province
ZESN 2017 Projections
ZEC provisional BVR statistics
Men
Women
Total
Men
Women
Total
% registered
Mat North
177596
211996
389592
140898
182689
323587
83.1%
Midlands
397689
467496
865185
328247
389263
717510
82.9%
Mash East
341616
394173
735790
263840
321358
585198
79.5%
Mash Central
296783
323496
620279
230406
260332
490738
79.1%
Masvingo
321247
433067
754314
242715
340884
583599
77.4%
Mash West
411007
423407
834414
299849 311902
611751
73.3%
Manicaland
405871
506891
912762
284962
381981
666943
73.1%
Mat South
160059
196527
356586
104578
141972
246550
69.1%
Harare
651540
694278
1345818
366467 381453
747920
55.6%
Bulawayo
186055
223334
409389
99168
211276
51.6%
Total
3349462
3874665 7224128
5185072
71.8%
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