Manila, April 1 -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has surpassed its 150,000 projected number of voter registrants for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), it announced on Wednesday.

Data from the poll body show 161,429 applications processed from Feb. 9 to March 31, the deadline of the registration period for the BARMM's first regular elections on the second Monday of September.

Lanao del Sur registered the highest number of applications with 50,918; followed by Maguindanao del Norte with 31,666; Maguindanao del Sur with 26,175; Basilan with 21,734; the Special Geographic Area with 16,505; and Tawi-Tawi with 14,431.

Meanwhile, the Comelec processed 3,602,534 applications for the voter registration nationw...