ALMOST half a million voters have registered for the November 2026 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE), nearly a month after the opening of the voters’ list-up nationwide.
Data from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) showed that 483,334 voter registration applications were received from Oct. 20 to Nov. 16.
The poll body said the running total was already approaching the 500,000 mark in less than a month since registration officially began.
The Comelec reported that it has processed 484,334 applications during the same period, covering new voter registrations, transfers from other cities or municipalities, and multiple other categories of voter-related transactions.
Calabarzon posted the highest number of processed applications with 103,752, followed by the National Capital Region with 63,030, Central Luzon with 54,080, Central Visayas with 28,047, and Caraga with 26,585.
The Cordillera Administrative Region logged the lowest turnout at 6,478 processed applications.
Of the total, 389,042 applicants registered for the barangay polls, while 94,292 sought to become Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) voters. Among regular voters aged 18 and above, the Comelec counted 132,054 new registrants.
The Comelec also processed 149,644 applications for transfer from other cities or municipalities, 30,584 transfers within the same locality, and 21,098 applications for reactivation. For SK voters aged 15 to 17, there were 88,760 new registrants, along with hundreds of applications for transfers and 4,763 requests for correction of entries.
It accepted other applications such as reinstatement of names omitted from the List of Voters, various transfer-and-reactivation combinations, change of name or correction of entries, and applications for inclusion in the Book of Voters..
Voter registration will run for seven months—from Oct.20, 2025 until May 18, 2026, with the Comelec expecting around 1.4 million new voters ahead of the next BSKE.
