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45.5M Filipinos registered to vote in May
Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
March 29, 2007
MANILA, Philippines -- Exactly 45,559,559 Filipinos are registered to vote,
half a million of them overseas, an official of the Commission on Elections
(Comelec) said Thursday.
Election commissioner Resurreccion Borra said the final tally of registered
voters in the country is 45,055,599. There are, on the other hand, 504,000
overseas voters.
The current total number of registered voters represents an increase of
1,641,387 from 2004's 43,918,172.
Voters registered in the country increased by 1,502,614 from the 43,552,985
in 2004.
On the other hand, there were 138,813 more overseas absentee voters than
2004's 365,187.
The region with the most number of voters is Region 4 with 7,011,944. Next
is the National Capital Region with 5,695,726 and then Region 3 with
5,099,912. Rounding up the five regions with the most voters are Region 6
with 3,667,465 and Region 7 with 3,464,465.
The Cordillera Administrative Region ranked last at 16th with the fewest
number of registered voters, with 791,899.
The other regions and their registered voters are: (6) Region 5, 2,551,667;
(7) Region 1, 2,405,943; (8) Region 11, 2,227,689; (9) Region 8, 2,195,731;
(10) Region 10, 2,129,037; (11) Region 12, 1,763,205; (12) Region 9,
2,195,731; (13) Region 2, 1,599,932; (14) Autonomous Region of Muslim
Mindanao, 1,505,455; (15) Caraga, 1,240,272.
Borra said the Comelec will allocate one ballot for each registered voter
with "a little extra for spoilage." However, he did not say how many extra
ballots they would ask the National Printing Office.
On Thursday, Borra was named officer-in-charge by Comelec chairman Benjamin
Abalos Sr., who is leaving "for a series of speaking engagements" in San
Francisco and Hawaii in the US.
Abalos will be back in the country on April 9, he said.