Outcome of final registration weekend
A record 25.3 million South Africans are registered and ready to vote in the 7 May 2014 national and provincial elections following a highly successful final registration weekend which saw 1 259 560 new voters registering.
The new registrations lifted the overall registration level from 76.9 percent prior to the weekend to 80.5 percent of all eligible voters today.
Combined with the 1.1 million new voters who registered for the first time in November, some 2.3 million new voters will have been added onto voters' roll for the first time since 8 November 2013. This is about 17 percent higher than the target the Electoral Commission had set of 2 million.
Encouragingly, 79.89 percent of all new registrations this weekend - or 1 006 260 - are voters under the age of 30. This included:
691 002 voters aged 20 - 29
255 398 voters aged 18 and 19
and 59 860 voters aged 16 and 17