addition of 230 voters who had been registered on a BVR registration kit in
Chegutu, Mashonaland West province, prior to the cut-off date for the 2018
general election but had not been uploaded into the database.
45.3. The Electoral Commission made no announcement with respect to the final
voter turnout when results for the House of Assembly elections were announced.
The statement made relating to voter turnout was a statement I made on
television after the close of the polls on the 30th of July 2018 in which I advised
that as at 18:00hrs we had received voter turnout figures from four out of the
ten provinces in Zimbabwe namely Masvingo, Bulawayo, Midlands and Harare.
Note that for those four provinces that had reported, polls were still open as at
18:00hrs.
45.4. I advised in that statement that the average turnout, from the statistics made
available as at 18:00 from the four provinces that had reported, was 75%. I
further advised in that statement that we were still to receive statistics from
Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, Matebeleland
North, Manicaland and Matebeland South provinces. I attach a copy of the
statement hereto marked Annexure ‘U’.
45.5. The final voter turnout in the presidential election was 85.1% which, when
applied to the total voter population, equates to 4 847 233. The results
announced by the Electoral Commission for the presidential election totalled 4
847 996, a variance of 763 votes with the actual 85.1%, which variance is
accounted for by some errors in data capture, (which I will address further down
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