IEBC has targeted a total of 100,047 new voters in the whole Vihiga county in the ongoing mass voter registration.
But there has been low voter turnout in the region, an issue that needs to be addressed immediately according to area leaders.
According to the statistics received from all five Constituencies in the County a total of 18610 new voters have been registered since the exercise kicked off two weeks ago.
This is the breakdown of the newly registered voters per every constituency as per 29th January 2017.
- Luanda-3872
- Emuhaya-2650
- Vihiga-3000
- Sabatia-4500
- Hamisi-4588
According to IEBC records, Vihiga County has 139,000 an uncollected new Identification Cards but the officer in charge of Registrar of persons Mrs. Ruth Aching indicated all IDs have been collected for disbursement.