Giving the regional breakdown, she said Greater Accra registered 3,509,805; Western recorded 1,185,315; Western North had 465,444; Central 1,566,061; Ashanti 3,013,856; Volta 929,322; and Oti 353,492.
The rest are Eastern 1,628,180; Bono 648,408; Ahafo 315,827; Bono East 592,015; Savannah 295,648; Northern 1,047,539; North East 288,393; Upper East 653,730; and Upper West 470,271.
She said the Commission\u2019s statistics indicates that of the total registrants 8,775,609 representing 51.73 per cent were females while 8,187,698 representing 48.27 per cent were males.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Upper East Region recorded the highest number of female registrants per population with 54.6 per cent whiles the Western Region had the highest number of male registrants per population with 51.2 per cent, she said. Mrs Mensa said the data showed that 762,944 registrants, representing 4.5 per cent, were first-time voters who had attained 18 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt the end of the exercise, 762,944 18-year-olds had registered as voters. To go a little deeper, 612,104 are 19-year-olds who also registered as voters,\u2019\u2019.
\u201cIn a nutshell, the total number of 18 and 19-year olds who had registered at the end of the exercise amounted to 1,375,048. This figure represents 8.1 per cent of the total register.\u201d
Mrs Mensa said out of the more than 16 million persons who registered at the end of the exercise, 60.09 per cent used the Ghana Card, 37.99 per cent registered through the Guarantor System, and 1.92 per cent registered with passports.
\u201cThe region with the highest number of persons who used the Ghana Card is the Oti<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source: net2tvgh.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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