• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
Negros Occidental has 48,453 new voters as of July 15, according to a report of the Commission of Elections.
This brings to a total of 1,954,679 the number of voters for Negros Occidental. However, the figures are expected to increase further as the registration of voters will continue until September 30 this year.
The filing of certificate of candidacy for the 2025 midterm elections, is slated for October 1 to 8.
On the other hand, the highly urbanized city of Bacolod logged 14,954 new voters, increasing to 340,828 its total number of voters, the Comelec report further showed.
The Comelec encourages not only new voters, but also those who were delisted from the poll body’s list of voters to take advantage of the ongoing registration so they could participate in the next elections.
Reasons for the delisting are failure to vote in two successive preceding regular elections, court order, loss of Filipino citizenship, and having non-valid documents.
The Comelec in Negros Occidental earlier reported that it purged 178,328 persons from its list of voters, for failure to vote in two successive elections.*
