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By BRENDA BARRIENTOS-VALLARTA
GMA News Research
Produced for the web
by Jessica Bartolome and Marisse Panaligan
Based on the latest Comelec data, there are 61,843,728 registered voters for the 2019 national and local elections. This is 13.76 percent higher than 2016’s 54,363,844 registered voters.
Region 4A or Calabarzon has the biggest number of registered voters among the 17 regions with 8.67 million registered voters. This is equivalent to 14 percent of all registered voters.
Metro Manila is second with 7.07 million followed by Region 3 or Central Luzon with 6.83 million registered voters.
Election paraphernalia litter a polling place in Manila in 2016. Danny Pata
VOTE-RICH PROVINCES
Seventeen provinces each have more than one million registered voters for the 2019 elections. The total number of registered voters in these 17 vote-rich provinces is almost 28 million, which accounts for nearly half, or 45 percent, of the registered voters for the 2019 local elections.
Of these:
— 11 are in Luzon (Cavite, Pangasinan, Laguna, Bulacan, Batangas, Rizal, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Quezon, Camarines Sur, Isabela .
— 4 are in Visayas (Cebu, Negros Occidental, Iloilo, Leyte).
— 2 are in Mindanao (Davao del Sur, Zamboanga del Sur).
Cebu hit the three million registered voters mark for this election while Cavite reached the two million mark.
Cebu Province’s 3,082,621 registered voters is more than the registered voters in 10 regions in the country: Eastern Visayas (3,051,649), Davao Region (3,026,393), Northern Mindanao (2,855,792), SOCCSKSARGEN or South Cotabato-Cotabato-Sultan Kudarat-Sarangani-General Santos (2,431,265), Cagayan Valley (2,194,418), Zamboanga Peninsula (2,193,033), Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (2,172,959), MIMAROPA or the Mindoro-Marinduque-Romblon-Palawan (1,831,328), CARAGA (1,760,562), and Cordillera Administrative Region (1,013,418).
VOTE-RICH CITIES
Two cities each have more than a million registered voters for this year’s elections. Quezon City, the most populous city in the country, has 1.33 million registered voters. Manila has 1.07 million registered voters.
They are among 20 cities in the country that each have at least 300,000 registered voters.
Half of these cities are in Metro Manila: Quezon City, Manila, Caloocan City, Makati City, Pasig City, Taguig City, Valenzuela City, Muntinlupa City, Parañaque City, and Las Piñas City.
Four are in CALABARZON provinces: Antipolo City in Rizal, Dasmariñas and Bacoor cities in Cavite and Calamba City in Laguna.
Cebu City in Cebu and Bacolod City in Negros Occidental are the vote-rich cities in the Visayas.
In Mindanao, there are four vote-rich cities. Davao City in Davao del Sur, which has more than 980,000 registered voters, Zamboanga City in Zamboanga del Sur, Cagayan de Oro City in Misamis Oriental and General Santos City in South Cotabato.
VOTER TURNOUT
Based on voter turnout in past elections, not all 61,843,728 registered voters would actually go to polling centers to cast their votes.
Comelec data show a national turnout of 81.95 percent during the 2016 polls—the highest in the last five national elections.
But six of the 17 regions had turnouts lower than the national average in 2016, including the top two regions with the most number of registered voters.
In Calabarzon, actual voters in the 2016 election were 5.93 million out of the 7.62 million registered voters. Turnout was 77.81 percent which means 1.69 million voters did not cast their ballots.
In Metro Manila, almost 1.34 million registered voters did not vote. Voter turnout in Metro Manila was 78.62 percent—4.92 million out of the 6.25 million registered voters actually voted.
Still, Calabarzon delivered the biggest number of votes among the regions in the 2016 elections—its 5,928,566 actual voters constituted 13.31 percent of the total actual votes nationwide.
While there were more registered voters in NCR compared to Central Luzon, a bigger number of people in Region 3 actually cast their votes. Votes from Central Luzon comprised 11.20 percent of all votes in the 2016 polls compared to 11.04 percent from Metro Manila.
TURNOUT IN PROVINCES
Of the 15 provinces with at least a million registered voters in the 2016 elections, 10 had turnout higher than the national average of 81.95 percent. These include Cebu, which delivered more than 2.31 million votes.
Five provinces including second vote-rich Cavite and fourth vote-rich Laguna had turnout lower than the national average.
TURNOUT IN CITIES
15 cities had at least 300,000 registered voters during the 2016 elections. But of these vote-rich cities, only four had turnout higher than the national turnout of 81.95 percent in the 2016 polls. The cities of Valenzuela, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, and Pasig were the only vote-rich cities with high voter turnout.
The remaining 11, including the top vote-rich city of Quezon City, had turnout lower than the national average.
The 15 vote-rich cities had actual voters totalling 6.07 million in 2016. These cities contributed 13.62 percent of the total 44.55 million actual voters that time.
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