More than 1.1M voters registered for 2026 BSKE —Comelec

The number of applicants who registered to vote for the 2026 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) has reached more than 1.1 million, near the target of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of 1.4 million new voters. 

Based on Comelec data, a total of 1,187,115 people registered to vote for the 2026 BSKE as of January 11, 2026. Of the figures, 629,863 were female and 557,252 were male.

Out of the 1.1 million, a total of 915,062 were regular voters or aged 18 years old and above, and 272,053 were Sangguniang Kabataan (SK).

New SK registrants were at 266,993. A total of 1,093 applied to be transferred from another city or municipality and 363 asked to be transferred within the same city or municipality.

Applications for new regular voters, meanwhile, stood at 324,536 while those who applied for reactivation totalled at 11,748.

Registrants per region

Meanwhile, the Comelec said Region IV-A (Calabarzon) reported the highest number of applicants with 244,836. It was followed by the National Capital Region (NCR) with 141,005; Region III (Central Luzon) with 138,683; and Region 7 (Central Visayas) with 66,112.

A total of 2,011 registrants applied at the Special Register Anywhere Program (SRAP) site in the Comelec main office in Intramuros, Manila.

The nationwide voter registration for the 2026 BSKE resumed on October 20, 2025. It will run until May 18, 2026.

Exempted in the voter registration period, however, are areas in the Bangsamoro in light of the suspension of the first-ever parliamentary polls.

Applicants may register from Mondays to Sundays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at any satellite registration sites or at their respective Comelec Office of the Election Officer (OEO), according to the poll body.

The voter registration period will likewise be opened to 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 proposed measure seeking to postpone the BSKE from December 1, 2025 to the first Monday of November 2026, and every four years thereafter. —KG, GMA Integrated News