11.1 Performance of Provinces
Harare Province recorded the highest number of registrants, at 747,920 registered voters followed by
the Midlands with 717,510 registrants. The lowest number of registrants was recorded in Bulawayo with
211,276 followed by Matebeleland South, which registered 246,550. However, proportionally, the best
performing province was Matebeleland North, which recorded 83, 1%, the Midlands (82, 9%)
Mashonaland Central (79, 1%) and Mashonaland East (79, 5%) follow Matebeleland North regarding
high performance. Figure 10 below shows the overall BVR Statistical picture compared to ZESN 2017
Voter Population Projections.
Figure 7 ZESN Voter Population Projections Vs BVR Registration
Figure 10 shows the overall picture of both ZESN 2018 population projections and ZEC provisional BVR
statistics. ZESN 2018 projections for the voting age population indicated that Harare has the highest
number of people aged 18+ (134 818), followed by Manicaland (912 762), Midlands (865 185) and in
fourth place is Mash West (834 414). The Province with the least number of projected population aged
18+ is Matabeleland South (356 586).
ZEC provisional BVR statistics (in the last column) shows that a substantial proportion of adult
Zimbabweans (2 039 056) did not register in the BVR Blitz and mop up exercise or are yet to register. For
example, Harare has a projected adult population of 1,3million (1 345 818) fewer than 800 000 (747
920) have registered to vote. Thus the registered population of Harare, in light of the projected figure is
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