AROUND 66 million voters are qualified to participate in the 2022 automated polls, according to the Commission on Elections.
Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez released on Sunday the statistics of qualified registered voters and voting centers nationwide based on the final data from Election Registration Board (ERB).
Overall, Comelec was able to tally 65.74 million registered voters, who will be distributed in 37,141 voting centers during the May 2022 polls.
This is around 4 million higher than the 61.84 million registered voters in the 2019 elections.
Vote-rich regions
CALABARZON remained the most vote-rich region for the 2022 elections with 9.19 million voters.
It was followed by the National Capital Region (7.32 million), Central Luzon (7.29 million), Central Visayas (5.25 million), and Western Visayas (5.02 million).
Rounding up the top 10 regions with the most voters are the Bicol Region (3.91 million), Ilocos Region (3.55 million), Davao Region (3.24 million), Eastern Visayas (3.17 million), and Northern Mindanao (3.06 million).
Lower bracket
Meanwhile, the regions with the lowest number of voters are the Cordillera Administratrative Region (1.08 million), Caraga (1.87 million), Mimaropa (1.99 million), Zamboanga Peninsula (2.3 million), Cagayan Valley Region (2.31 million), Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (2.39 million) and Soccsksargen (2.61 million).
Comelec earlier disclosed it needs the final list of voters and candidates before it could start printing the ballots for 2022 elections.
Jimenez said they expect to come out with the final list of candidates before the end of the month.
