11.5 BVR Registration by Gender by Province as At 22/02/2018 The table below (Figure 17) shows the gender breakdown of registered voters according to ZEC’s provisional statistics release of 22 February 2018, based on actual figure calculations compared to ZESN’s projected voting population. When the data is viewed by gender, the general trend is that more women than men across most provinces registered to vote. Using the population projection, the gender divide is more apparent in provinces such as Matabeleland North (women = 86.2%; men = 79.3%) and South (women = 72.2%; men = 65.3%) and Manicaland (women = 75.4%; men = 70.2%). As such there are minor differences between the totals in red and the totals as given by ZEC. The table shows that the majority of voters in the 2018 election, per registration are women, by about 8 percentage points, as women take up 54% of registered voters while men are about 46%. Figure 14 Comparative ZESN Voter Population Projection & BVR Stats BY Gender By Province 56