The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday announced the total number of voters in
the country as over 84 million.
Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman,
said the national voter register hit 84,004,084 after the continuous voter
registration which ended in 2018.
The figure, which constitutes 42
percent of Nigeria’s 198 million population, is 15.17 million more than the
68,833,476 voters who participated in the 2015 elections.
QUICK FACTS FROM THE NATIONAL
VOTER REGISTER:
Lagos has highest number of
voters with 6,570,291, followed by Kano which has 5,457,747 voters.
The voters in Lagos equals 65.3
percent of the voters in the south-east which is the least among the regions
with 10,057,130 voters.
North-west region leads with 24
percent of the voters (20,158,100) followed by 19.39 percent in south-west
(16,292,212). Other regional data are 11.9 percent of the voters (10,057,130)
in south-east; 15.9 percent in south-south (12,841,279); 13.4 percent in
north-east (11,289,293); and 15.9 percent in north-central (13, 366,070).
Youth – between 18 and 35 years –
constitute the highest number of voters with 51.11 percent at 42,938,458
voters.
Below is the representation of
the voters in all the 36 states and the FCT:
S/N
|
STATES
|
NO OF VOTERS
|
1
|
Abia
|
1,932,892
|
2
|
Adamawa
|
1,973,083
|
3
|
Akwa Ibom
|
2,119,727
|
4
|
Anambra
|
2,447,996
|
5
|
Bauchi
|
2,462,843
|
6
|
Bayelsa
|
923,182
|
7
|
Benue
|
2,480,131
|
8
|
Borno
|
2,315,956
|
9
|
Cross River
|
1,527,289
|
10
|
Delta
|
2,845,274
|
11
|
Ebonyi
|
1,459,933
|
12
|
Edo
|
2,210,534
|
13
|
Ekiti
|
909,967
|
14
|
Enugu
|
1,944,016
|
15
|
FCT
|
1,344,856
|
16
|
Gombe
|
1,394,393
|
17
|
Imo
|
2,272,293
|
18
|
Jigawa
|
2,111,106
|
19
|
Kaduna
|
3,932,492
|
20
|
Kano
|
5,457,747
|
21
|
Katsina
|
3,230,230
|
22
|
Kebbi
|
1,806,231
|
23
|
Kogi
|
1,646,350
|
24
|
Kwara
|
1,406,457
|
25
|
Lagos
|
6,570,291
|
26
|
Nasarawa
|
1,617,786
|
27
|
Niger
|
2,390,035
|
28
|
Ogun
|
2,375,003
|
29
|
Ondo
|
1,822,346
|
30
|
Osun
|
1,680,498
|
31
|
Oyo
|
2,934,107
|
32
|
Plateau
|
2,480,455
|
33
|
Rivers
|
3,215,273
|
34
|
Sokoto
|
1,903,166
|
35
|
Taraba
|
1,777,105
|
36
|
Yobe
|
1,365,913
|
37
|
Zamfara
|
1,717,128
|
Total
|
84,004,084
|
|
NEW VOTERS
|
15,170,608
|
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