IHEC Announces Updated Statistics On The Number Of Candidates And Voters

The Independent High Electoral Commission announced updated statistics, with the number of candidates and voters for the local elections.

“The number of candidates registered to participate in the provincial council elections until today, Saturday, has reached 348 candidates,” said the commission’s spokesperson, Jumana Al-Ghalali, in an audio statement, added, “As for the number of voters who updated their data until yesterday, it reached 942,406 voters, including 3331 displaced persons, while the number of newly registered voters born in 2005 reached 99,308.

She explained that the commission’s decision to extend the process of updating the voter register for a period of 5 days led to the registration of 70,007 new voters during the past three days.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency