Gambia’s Voter List Hits Over One Million

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) yesterday revealed that the total number of people registered as voters’ in The Gambia is exactly one million, one hundred and forty six thousand, four hundred and seventy four (1,146,474).

Addressing the media at the Election House, IEC chairman Joseph Colley said this figure was arrived at following the removal of 165 names from the 2026 provisional register through the Revising Courts, adding also that the total figure is a combination of the 2021 voter register and the 2026 supplementary voter register where a total of 212,095 registered.

Chairman Colley then went on to give a breakdown of the numbers in each Administrative Area as follows:

Banjul-24,820; Basse– 140,175; Brikama-437,20; Janjanbureh-140,899; Kanifing-210,437; Kerewan-127,181; and Mansakonko-65,942.

He further explained that owing to the increased number of voters this year, there would be 1773 polling stations across the country.

Voter data
Chairman Colley stated that the Commission will give a copy of data of the expunged voters card from the Revising Courts together with those deleted from the provisional list of voters to all political parties.