South Africa: 2009 Voter registration - proportion of women to men by province

Updated February 2011

Province	No voters			% voters
	Women	Men	Total	Women	Men
Eastern Cape	1 772 489	1 283 166	3 055 655	58	42
Free State	755 370	630 206	1 385 576	55	45
Gauteng	2 782 162	2 676 688	5 458 850	51	49
KwaZulu-Natal	2 548 839	1 926 378	4 475 217	57	43
Limpopo	1 360 851	895 222	2 256 073	60	40
Mpumalanga	923 818	772 207	1 696 025	54	46
North West	858 354	799 190	1 657 544	52	48
Northern Cape	298 018	256 882	554 900	54	46
Western Cape	1 418 474	1 215 965	2 634 439	54	46
Total	12 718 375	10 455 904	23 174 279	55	45

Table source

BOOYSEN, S & MASTERSON, G 2009 "Chapter 11: South Africa" IN Denis Kadima and Susan Booysen (eds) Compendium of Elections in Southern Africa 1989-2009: 20 Years of Multiparty Democracy, EISA, Johannesburg, 406, 407.