HARARE, March. 1 (Xinhua) -- Women constitute the majority of registered voters for the upcoming elections scheduled for mid-2018, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said Thursday.
ZEC commissioner Joyce Kazembe told a press conference that provisional statistics indicate that women constitute 54.5 percent of the registered voters.
ZEC is currently decrypting voter registration data following the end of a mobile biometric voter registration on Feb. 8.
At least 5.3 million people have registered to vote.
Kazembe said a total of 5.1 million registered voters had been decrypted by Feb. 22 as the electoral body pushes to produce a provisional voters' roll by early April.
She said registered voters aged between 18 and 34 constituted 43.5 percent of the total while those aged 60 and above constituted 13.6 percent.
The capital Harare had the highest percentage of registered voters at 44.4 percent, followed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province of Midlands with 38.8 percent.
Voter registration is still continuing at 73 district centers around the country until a few weeks before elections.
ZEC has said according to law, the elections must be held between July 21 and Aug. 21 unless parliament is dissolved earlier in terms of the law.
Kazembe said according to the election time frame, the earliest date for the sitting of the nomination court will be May 19.
