26.75m - IEC records highest number of registered voters since democracy
22 March 2019
The Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) has had its voters' roll certified and the number of eligible voters stands at 26.75m – representing a 1.3m increase in the number of people who registered to vote in 2014.
The IEC said in a statement on Friday that since its inception ahead of the 1999 national and provincial elections, the voters' roll has shown steady growth of more than 47% and currently contains the most registered voters.
Of the total number of eligible voters for the May 8 elections, 55% are women.
Gauteng has the highest number of registered voters at 6.3m or 23.8% of the total number of national voters.