INEC GIVES A BREAKDOWN OF VOTER'S CARD ACROSS THE COUNTRY



Stated below is the breakdown of total number of registered voters across Nigeria’s 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Abuja, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Though registration of persons who were under age during the last registration exercise and replacement of lost or damaged voters card of old voters card is still going on. 


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


The Northwest currently has the highest number of registered voters at 20,158,100. That hands the Northwest 24% of the registered vote total.


The southwest region comes second with 16,292,212 registered voters (19.39%), while the north-central has 13,366,070 registered voters (15.91%), and the south-south has 12,841,279 registered voters (15.29%).


The northeast region and the southeast region come last with the total number of registered voters with 11,289,293 (13.44%) and 10,057,130 voters (11.97%) respectively.


Of the total, there are more registered male voters (44,405,439) than female voters (39,598,645). The male population of registered voters make up 52.86% of the total voter register with registered female voters making up the remaining 47.14%.

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