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Voter turnout reflects citizen participation

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In the 2020 Malawi elections, over 6 million Malawians registered to vote, as reported by the Malawi Electoral Commission. The chart shows a comparison between the number of registered voters and those who actually voted across four categories: the national total, and the Southern, Central, and Northern regions.

At the national level, the number of actual voters was significantly lower than the number of registered voters, although more than half of those registered participated