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The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has announced provisional statistics indicating that a total of 8,861,918 voters are currently on the Register of Voters ahead of the 2026 General Election.
Speaking during a media briefing in Lusaka on Saturday , Chief Electoral Officer, Brown Kasaro, said the figures combine data from the mass voter registration exercise, continuous registration and previously certified records.
He stressed that all numbers remain provisional and will undergo verification and deduplication before the publication of the 2026 Provisional Register of Voters.
“Our national target for the mass registration exercise was 3.5 million. I wish to report that the Commission captured 1,615,922 new voters, representing 46 percent of the national target,” Kasaro told journalists.
The 2025 mass registration recorded 766,742 male voters and 849,180 female voters.
Southern Province recorded the highest proportional achievement against target at 63 percent, followed by Western Province at 71 percent when combined with continuous registration figures.
The Commission also captured 1,832,368 updates, which include voter card replacements and transfers, during the mass registration period.
Kasaro said the continuous voter registration process, which began in June 2022 and ran in 30 districts, contributed 172,483 additional voters between March 2024 and August 2025.
He added that the Commission certified the Register of Voters twice during the same period, incorporating 13,363 new voters in February 2024 and a further 36,651 in February 2025.
“When we combine the outcomes of the mass voter registration with those from continuous registration, the Commission recorded a total of 1,788,405 new registrations, representing an overall national achievement of 51 percent,” he said.
Lusaka Province emerged as the largest contributor to the provisional register, accounting for 16.43 percent of the total voter population, followed by Copperbelt and Eastern.
Out of the 8,861,918 provisional registered voters, 4,709,637 are female while 4,152,281 are male, reflecting a continued trend of higher female voter registration nationwide.
Kasaro said the next stage will involve verification and data cleansing to eliminate duplicate entries before the Commission opens the inspection exercise in early 2026.
“It is this provisional figure which will be subjected to the verification and deduplication process to produce the 2026 Provisional Register of Voters. The inspection exercise will allow citizens to verify their details and ensure the accuracy of the final register,” he said.
He added that in February 2026, the ECZ will publish disaggregated statistics, including age distribution, disability data and constituency-level breakdowns.
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