RA Trivia: Majority of The Voters Are Single says Comelec

AS THE 2025 National and Local Elections (NLE) approach, recent data shows that the overall number of voters in the country has risen to 68.4 million, with single individuals making up the majority. 

According to data on demographics issued by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), 39.2 million registered voters, or 57.41 percent, are single, while 28.1 million, or 41.08 percent, are married.

Eastern and Central Visayas, as well as Metro Manila, are home to 39.2 million single voters. Meanwhile, 950,243 people (1.38 percent) are widowed, and 83,039 (0.12 percent) are legally separated. 

According to the Comelec, there are 34.8 million female voters, or 50.97 percent, slightly more than 33.5 million male voters (49.03 percent).

Dominance of Young Voters

Meanwhile, 33.74 percent of voters are millennials, 26.78 percent are Gen Z, 22.72 percent are Generation X, and 16.77 percent are Baby Boomers, the Silent or Greatest Generation, and elderly citizens. 

Despite the younger generation of Millennials and Gen Zs dominating the voting landscape, there is still a major concern in securing a result that would leave a positive impact in the country. 

“In fact it’s the biggest percentage of the total pie,” said Comelec Commissioner Rey Bulay, in an exclusive interview with republicasia.“But they don’t have a solid vote in the sense that social strata affect it.”

“You have young people belonging to those who have access to information readily because of their position in life. And you have the rest, which are battling each day in poverty so basically those things, they affect how people of their age will vote.” 

“So, being a very large segment of society, I think the younger generation can help the Commission very much because we would like to encourage and tap very large segment of our society to participate and vote,” he added.

Work Hand in Hand

Commissioner Bulay is reaching out to Generation Zs and Millennials to collaborate with Comelec in educating the youth on how to vote in the 2025 midterm elections.

“And somehow, somewhere, lead the nation to make the right choice of the right person for the job, having in mind all the information about the state of our country and what it is that we need,” the Commissioner said.

“So basically if we channel all our resources to help educate, they won’t accept the word educate, to help these people guide them make the right decision, I think we have half of the job done,” he went on to say.

The significant 90-day campaign period for the 66 senate candidates and 156 party-list organizations for the 2025 National and Local Elections began on February 11 and will end on May 10.