Centre for Social Justice campaign-finance monitoring reports
Field monitoring of campaign spending, priced at market rates, for the 2015 presidential election and governorship elections in Edo, Ondo, Anambra and Ekiti (2012–2018).
- Publisher
- Centre for Social Justice (CSJ)
- Country
- Nigeria
- Source type
- CIVIL_SOCIETY_REPORT
- Years
- 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 located; a 2011 report is cited but its file was not found
- Format
- PDF reports with summary tables
- Access
- Public downloads
- Priority
- High
- Last checked
- 2026-10-04
Evidence
Seven reports parsed; every category figure (122) was found in the report text and category figures sum exactly to CSJ's totals. Several governorship totals include amounts CSJ attributes to vote buying or state resources.
Limitations
Observation-based: counts what monitors saw, so it usually understates spending. Vote-buying and state-resource amounts are allegations and are kept out of OpenPolls spending figures; totals that include them are withheld.
Ingestion plan
Loaded with ingest/build_spending.py as 'Observed by monitors'. Reports archived where the Wayback Machine allowed and fingerprinted (SHA-256).
Expected records, as stated: 94 observed figures loaded; 14 monitor totals withheld.
Terms of use
Reuse licence, robots policy and automated-access permissions have not yet been established. Link to the publisher; do not redistribute or automate collection until reviewed.
Possible joins
- Party
- Election
- Spending category
Joins describe keys that could connect datasets. A link between ownership, contracts or finance records does not show causation or wrongdoing.
Referenced in coverage
- Campaign expenses, 2015: PARTIAL