General election · 28 Mar 2015

Nigeria's 2015 general election.

Who ran, the results, what the candidates promised, what was spent, and the violence, in one place. Each section links to the full page and its sources. Where OpenPolls does not hold something yet, it says so.

Who ran

INEC's 2015 final lists of candidates are not loaded yet.

Results

INEC declared Muhammadu Buhari (APC) elected, with 15,424,921 of 28,587,564 valid votes.

Muhammadu Buhari APC15,424,921
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan PDP12,853,162
Ayeni Musa Adebayo APA53,537
Ganiyu O. Galadima ACPN40,311
Sam Eke CPP36,300

The five candidates with the most votes, of 14. National totals from INEC's declaration; the full page says where its state figures come from.

All 14 candidates and results by state

Manifestos

For 2015, OpenPolls found manifestos for 1 of 14 presidential tickets: APC.

Survives only in an archive: 1
Launch reported, no document found: 1
No manifesto found: 12

All 2015 manifestos

Money

35 spending figures for 2015 from 4 sources: The party (audited accounts, as reported by Premium Times); Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) monitors; Unnamed advert agencies and field reports (reported by Vanguard); Compliance and Content Management Ltd (reported by PM News). Different sources measure different things, so they are shown side by side on the Money page and never added together.

What was spent in 2015

Violence

39 figures and 8 dated incidents from INEC, election observers and news reports: deaths, attacks on INEC, polling units disrupted and materials destroyed.

What violence cost the 2015 election