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 47