CEC: Number of Voters 3.45 Million
Number of Georgia’s voters stands at 3,452,093, according to updated figures released by the Central Election Commission (CEC) on August 6.
CEC is responsible for compiling voter lists based on data provided four times in a year by the relevant authorities, primarily the Justice Ministry’s Public Service Development Agency.
The election commission will have to release updated figures on number of voters no later than October 3, five days before the parliamentary elections.
Data released by the CEC also includes number of voters in each of the 73 election districts.
Election districts were redrawn earlier this year to narrow huge discrepancy in size of single-mandate constituencies by merging some small districts and dividing larger ones.
As a result boundaries of single-mandate constituencies no longer coincide with those of administrative borders of municipalities.
Number of voters in each election district varies from 41,364 in the smallest one (Tbilisi’s single-mandate constituency covering mostly the capital city’s Vake district) to 53,480 in the largest one (Gurjaani single-mandate constituency in eastern Georgian region of Kakheti).
Before the redistricting, number of voters was ranging from over 150,000 in the largest one to less than 6,000 in the smallest one.
Lawmakers from the opposition UNM challenged the electoral redistricting in the Constitutional Court, claiming that the boundaries were redrawn to the detriment of opposition parties. The Constitutional Court rejected the complaint in a ruling on July 20.
