Certification of the voters' roll for 2014 elections
06 Mar 2014
Chief Electoral Officer Mosotho Moepya has certified the voters' roll, setting the stage for 25 390 150 voters to cast their ballots in the 7 May 2014 national and provincial elections.
This is 2 208 153 more voters (9.5% increase) than were on the voters' roll for the 2009 national and provincial elections and 7.2 million (39.72% increase) more than were on the voters' roll when it was established for the first time for the 1999 elections.
The voters' roll reflects a total of 80.80% of registered voters when compared against the estimated voting age population according to estimates from Statistics South Africa. In comparison, registration levels stood at 80% in 1999, 84.6% in 2004 and 84.07% in 2009.
Gauteng has the highest number of voters with just over 6 million followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 5.1 million, the Eastern Cape with 3.24 million and the Western Cape with 2.9 million. Between them these four provinces make up almost 68% of all voters.