Over 15 million voters registered for Sudan’s election

December 13, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — Hadi Mohamed Ahmed, chairman of the Department of the Electoral Register at the National Election Commission (NEC) today announced that 15,778,154 voters have registered to participate in the upcoming elections.

The Sudanese official, who announced the figure during the inauguration of the NEC press center on Sunday, said at least ten thousand workers took part in the voter registration in 749 centers.

Hadi further disclosed that the number of people registered at the registration centers outside the Sudan reached 112,642 voters included in the above mentioned figure.

Accordingly the total number of registered voters is 81% distributed as the following:

Khartoum: 1.932783

South Darfur: 1318858

Al Jazeera: 1543340

North Kurdufan: 900573

North Darfur: 685879

Kassala: 751342

White Nile: 640835

South Kordufan: 749232

Red See: 687181

Jonglei: 481551

West Darfur: 424958

Al Qadarif: 495520

Sennar 516566

River Nile (Nahr an Nil) 435659

Central Equatoria: 532031

Warrap: 421687

Upper Nile 405651

Eastern Equatoria: 393124

Blue Nile: 350618

Northern Bahr el Ghazal: 451789

Northern (Ash Shamaliyah): 269528

Lakes state: 336106

Western Equatoria: 218256

Unity: 522196

Western Bahr el Ghazal: 210239

(ST)