General election · 23 Feb 2019

Nigeria's 2019 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

6,657

candidates were on INEC's final lists for 470 federal seats on 23 Feb 2019: the presidency, 109 Senate seats and 360 House of Representatives seats.

President

73 for 1 seat

One winner

Women candidates

6 of 73 (8.2%)

Plus 22 women among the 73 running mates.

1 listed without a sex (mostly court-ordered substitutions).

Age · median 51.5

Under 35
1
35–49
32
50–64
32
65 and over
7

1 age printed incorrectly by INEC left out.

Senate

1,904 for 109 seats

About 17 per seat

Women candidates

234 of 1,904 (12.3%)

1 listed without a sex (mostly court-ordered substitutions).

Age · median 47

Under 35
147
35–49
951
50–64
685
65 and over
98

23 ages printed incorrectly by INEC left out.

House of Reps

4,680 for 360 seats

About 13 per seat

Women candidates

543 of 4,680 (11.6%)

1 listed without a sex (mostly court-ordered substitutions).

Age · median 41

Under 35
1,065
35–49
2,293
50–64
1,180
65 and over
62

80 ages printed incorrectly by INEC left out.

Counted by OpenPolls from INEC's lists; gender and age as INEC printed them.

Counted from INEC's final lists of 17 January 2019. Later court-ordered changes are not included.
The SDP presidential slot reads 'party yet to submit name of candidate – court order', so 72 named tickets are listed for 73 parties.

Results

INEC declared Buhari Muhammadu (APC) elected, with 15,191,847 of 27,324,583 valid votes.

Buhari Muhammadu APC15,191,847
Abubakar Atiku PDP11,262,978
Felix Nicolas PCP110,196
Mailafia Obadiah ADC97,874
Gbor John Wilson Terwase APGA66,851

The five candidates with the most votes, of 73. National totals from INEC's declaration; the full page says where its state figures come from.

All 73 candidates and results by state

Manifestos

For 2019, OpenPolls found manifestos for 10 of 15 presidential tickets: APC, PDP, ADC, APGA, ADP, GDPN, APA, AAC, YPP, ANN.

Survives only in an archive: 10
No manifesto found: 5

All 2019 manifestos

Money

3 spending figures for 2019 from 2 sources: The party (filed return, as reported by Premium Times); INEC tracking (reported by Premium Times). Different sources measure different things, so they are shown side by side on the Money page and never added together.

What was spent in 2019

Violence

59 figures and 25 dated incidents from INEC, election observers and news reports: deaths, attacks on INEC, polling units disrupted and materials destroyed.

What violence cost the 2019 election