Increase in voters

Bridgetown.

Over three thousand new voters are registered to vote in the general elections tomorrow.

The new electoriall list for all 30 constituncies was compiled by the Electoral and Commission has a total of 247,211 voters.

The number voters on the list at the previous general elections held in January 2008 was 243,501 voters. At January 31, it was 245,672 with 118,669 men and 128,542 women.

The consituency of St Philip South has the highest complement of voters 10,592. St Michael North West, has the lowest number of people registered to vote 6,911.

St James South with 9,267 voters has shown a dramatic increase of over 2000 voters after having only 6940 persons on the electoral list last year.