People wait in line for the last day of voter’s registration at a mall in Manila on October 31, 2021.
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MANILA, Philippines — The final number of new voter registrants in the 2022 registration was 2,936,979, said the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday.
The 2022 voter registration ended on July 23, lasting almost three weeks since it started on July 4.
Based on the latest data by Comelec spokesperson Rex Laudiangco, 1,814,907 registrants were from the 15 to 17 age group.
Comelec also said it gathered 963,418 registrations from 18 to 30-year-olds and 159,654 from the 31 and above age bracket.
The data also showed that the total number of applications processed as of July 20 is now total to 3,900,250 — including applications for transfer of voter registration, transfer from overseas voting to local voting, as well as reactivation.
The registration commenced in time for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, which are set for December 5, 2022.