Over 800K registered to vote for 2026 BSKE —Comelec

The number of applicants who registered to vote for the 2026 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) reached more than 800,000, according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

Data shared by the Comelec showed that as of December 7, a total of 877,422 individuals registered to vote for the 2026 BSKE.

Of this number, 199,037 were for Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) or those 15 years old to 17 years old, while 678,385 were regular voters or those aged 18 years old and above.

New registration for SK voting totalled at 195,154, based on the Comelec data. A total of 880 applicants requested to be transferred from another city or municipality and 265 asked to be transferred within the same city or municipality.

For regular voters, new applications for registration stood at 240,743 and applications for reactivation were at 35,433.

It has been nearly two months since the Comelec resumed nationwide voter registration for 2026 BSKE on October 20, 2025. It will run until May 18, 2026.

However, the poll body earlier announced that exempted in the voter registration period are areas in the Bangsamoro in light of the suspension of the first-ever parliamentary polls.

Applicants may register from Monday to Sundays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at any satellite registration sites or at their respective Office of the Election Officer (OEO), according to the poll body. The voter registration period will likewise be opened in all types of applications including:

• transfer of records,
• new registration,
• change of name and status,
• correction of entries,
• reactivation of registration records,
• inclusion of registration records, and
• reinstating of name in the list of voters.

The Comelec earlier said it is targeting to register 1.4 million new voters for the 2026 BSKE during the months-long nationwide registration.

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. in August signed into law the measure postponing the BSKE from December 1, 2025 to the first Monday of November 2026, and every four years thereafter.—AOL, GMA Integrated News