Following several requests by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network ZESN and other stakeholders for Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to release data, on the numbers of voters registered disaggregated by province and gender, the ZEC published the Biometric Voter Registration BVR data on its website in March 2018. Analysis of the data indicates that registration was generally high across all provinces. The BVR exercise resulted in higher numbers of youth and women registering as voters.
Below is a preliminary comparative analysis of the registration statistics using ZESN Population Projections released in May 2017, based on the 2012 Population Census data. ZESN will release a more detailed comparative analysis based on the 2013 voter turnout in due course.
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