Gambia electoral commission to publish final voters’ list next week
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Kerr Fatou
The Gambian electoral commission plans to publish the final voters’ list next week, after magistrates review the registers, its chair Joseph Colley announced. Checks of entries from the 2026 supplementary registration are intended to remove names not retained before the final electorate figures are set, according to the commission, cited by Kerr Fatou.
The Independent Electoral Commission of The Gambia will publish the final voters’ list next week, after removing registrations deemed ineligible. Its chair, Joseph Colley, announced on Thursday that the final electorate figures and the number of polling stations would then be released, according to Kerr Fatou.
The commission must first have magistrates review and sign the registers. The review, which is required by law to take place over a 60-day period, will determine which names are retained or removed before the final list is published, Joseph Colley explained at a press conference with stakeholders.
The final list will combine data from the 2021 registrations and the supplementary exercise conducted in 2026. It will be sent electronically to political parties and independent candidates, who will receive the same document, the commission chair said.
The announcement responds to repeated demands from the UDP, the United Democratic Party, for data from the 2026 supplementary registration. It comes on the day 25 presidential hopefuls collected nomination forms for the Gambian election, on 22 October. The UDP’s challenge to 14,000 registrations had already fuelled tensions over the electoral register.
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