Cebu has most number of voters with 2.7M

CEBU has the biggest number of voters among all provinces in the country with over 2.7 million registered voters, the provincial office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday.

“If sa province lang basehan, Cebu gyud ang kinadaghanan (If based in the province level, Cebu has the most number of voters),” Comelec provincial supervisor Lionel Marco Castillano said last Monday.

That number is nine percent higher than the 2.5 million registrants in the 2013 elections which was also the biggest number of voters in any province for that year.

In the 2010 presidential elections, Cebu province logged a voter turnout of 77.86 percent.

The Comelec provincial office said Cebu province has 2,722,288 registrants as of December 16 last year.

“We are the center of commerce in Central Visayas. People can find work here,” Castillano said in explaining Cebu’s large voting population.

Cebu also has the most number of registered voters in Central Visayas, followed by Bohol with 798,768; Negros Oriental with 785,712; and Siquijior with 68,998.

The Comelec included registrants in Cebu’s seven component cities, the two legislative districts of Cebu City and 44 towns.

Castillano said there will be 4,066 clustered precincts and 1,182 voting centers in the province in this year’s elections.

Trailing behind Cebu is Cavite with over 1.8 million registrants, Pangasinan with 1.7 million, Laguna with 1.68 million, and Negros Occidental with 1.66 million.

The top five provinces account for more than 9.5 million voters, Castillano said.

As of Dec. 16, 2015, the Comelec recorded more than 54 million registered voter nationwide.