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Voter registration

How big the register is, who is on it, and what the 2025–26 CVR added.

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The register keeps growing — toward 100 million

Registered voters at each presidential election
New registrants, CVR 2025–26
10,772,421
Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Register at 2023 polls
93,469,008
Growth since 2015
+38.6%
67.4m → 93.5m
2015
67.4m
2019
84.0m
2023
93.5m
2027*
~104m
Registered votersNew CVR registrants, 2025–26

*Provisional: new registrants are still being cleaned through ABIS de-duplication.

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Who is on the 2023 register?

Final register, 93.47 million voters
Youth (18–34)
39.65%
largest age group
Women
47.52%
44.41 million
Men
52.48%
49.05 million
18–34 (youth)
39.65%
35–49
35.75%
50–69
18.94%
70+
5.66%
Largest registers
  1. Lagos
  2. Kano
  3. Kaduna
  4. Rivers
  5. Katsina
Smallest registers
  1. Ekiti
  2. Bayelsa
  3. Yobe
  4. FCT
  5. Gombe
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Inside the 2025–26 Continuous Voter Registration

INEC CVR updates, Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Total new registrants
10,772,421
provisional, pre-ABIS
Phase I
2,572,054
Phase II
3,748,704
Youth share (early count)
67.43%
of first 2.97m registrants
Kano
330,906
Lagos
181,254
Delta
166,895
Edo
156,150
Sokoto
145,160

Phase III leaders. Top five states by new registrations in Phase III (to week 11, 26 July 2026). About 70% of Phase III registrants enrolled at physical centres and 30% finished online pre-registration. Women made up 52.56% of the first 2.97 million new registrants. No registration took place in Osun during its governorship election period.

National figures used on this page.
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Sources: INEC final register of voters for 2023 (via Dataphyte); INEC Continuous Voter Registration updates, 2025–26 (via Vanguard, Opinion Nigeria and allAfrica). New-registrant figures are provisional.