Ahead of the 2023 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday announced the creation of additional 56,873 polling units.
A check on the distribution of the current polling units as tinkered with by the electoral body showed that Northwest had the highest total of 41,671 followed by Southwest with a total of 34,898.
Both zones are leaders in the Northern and Southern regions respectively.
North Central now has 27, 516, South-South- 27,126, Northeast -24,006 and Southeast -21,631 polling units.
The new polling units were products of the merging of voting points and voting settlement units. With this development, each polling unit is expected to have maximum of 500 voters for easy management on election day as against the old order where some voting points and voting settlement units had between 750 and 1000 voters.
Below is the distribution of the new polling units by states.
North West
Sokoto-3,991
Katsina-6,652
Jigawa-4,522
Kano-11,222
Kaduna-8,012
Kebbi-3,743
Zamfara-3,529
Total 41,671
North East
Yobe-2,823
Bauchi-5,423
Gombe-2,988
Borno-5,071, Adamawa-4,104 Taraba-3,597
Total 24,006
North Central
Kwara -2,887
Niger-4,950
FCT-2,822
Nasarawa-3,256
Kogi-3,508
Plateau-4,989
Benue-5,102
Total 27, 516
South West
Oyo-6,390
Ogun-5,042
Lagos-13,325
Ondo-3,933
Osun-3,763
Ekiti-2,445
Total 34,898
South South
Edo-4,519
Delta-5,863
Bayelsa-2,244
Rivers-6,866 Akwa-lbom-4,353
Cross River-3,281
Total 27,126
South East
Enugu-4,145
Ebonyi-2,946 Anambra-5,720
Abia-4,062
Imo-4,758
Total 21,631
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