The Antigua & Barbuda Electoral Commission says more than half of eligible voters have now completed the replacement of their voter identification cards, according to its latest official report for April 2026.
Figures show an overall completion rate ranging from the mid-50% range in several constituencies to as high as 87% in St Peter. Nationwide, the process is steadily advancing, with most constituencies crossing the 55% threshold.
St Peter is leading the exercise with 87% completion, followed by Barbuda at 76% and St Philip North at 75%. At the lower end, St Mary’s North and St John’s Rural West are both just above the halfway mark, at 54% and 55% respectively.
The Commission reported a total of 29,427 applications processed so far, including 6,076 in April alone. Weekly data for 12–18 April shows 2,105 replacement applications completed, with activity concentrated earlier in the week.
Daily figures indicate the highest turnout on 13 April, when 793 applications were processed, followed by 605 on 14 April and 501 on 15 April. No activity was recorded between 16 and 18 April in the report.
In addition to replacements, 257 new voter applications were recorded during the same week.
The data highlights stronger performance in both urban and rural constituencies in St John’s, particularly St John’s Rural West and All Saints West, which recorded some of the highest weekly totals.
Officials have not indicated a deadline but continue to encourage eligible voters to complete the process, as the replacement programme moves closer to full national coverage.
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It’s astonishing to see that the ABLP just keeps missing the mark. They keep doing things that make absolutely no sense. Yes, they pave a nice road, but look at the homes—they’re falling apart. We need affordable concrete homes, not just fancy roads. And while we have 15 days of hard work for appearances—like when the dignitaries came—they just scratch the surface. We need a real system overhaul: better healthcare, a cancer treatment center that isn’t run by people with conflicts of interest. And don’t even get me started on the cost of living—duties that just keep rising, cars that cost 40% more, and still no proper roads. Meanwhile, we still have no steady water flow. And all this while we see broken glass at bus stops and no trash bins. This is not vision; this is just holding us back. Even buildings we inherited fall apart, and we pay rent to keep them up. Gaston Brown is not running this country properly; he thinks it’s a dolly house. Just because we see a hundred posters doesn’t mean he’s doing a good job. People know—we see the mansion, the scandals, and we vote with all that in mind. It’s time for change. We’ve had enough…
@change must come.
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What really gets under my skin is the way our people are being shut out of our beaches. Look around people, our island has become a a place of waste, fraud and abuse run by greedy self enrichment. Feels like us locals have lost our beautiful Antigua to the wealthy foreigners. Let me find a piece of beach to lay down, me tired.