INEC final lists of candidates, 2027
Statutory notices listing every cleared candidate for the January 2027 presidential, Senate and House of Representatives elections.
- Publisher
- Independent National Electoral Commission
- Country
- Nigeria
- Source type
- OFFICIAL_GOVERNMENT_RECORD
- Years
- 2027 (presidential and National Assembly); governorship and State Assembly list scheduled for 10 Oct 2026 (reported)
- Format
- PDF tables (text, not scanned) signed by the Secretary to the Commission
- Access
- Public download; no login
- Priority
- High
- Last checked
- 2026-10-04
Evidence
Three PDFs retrieved and parsed: 18 presidential tickets (3 pages), 1,303 Senate candidates in 109 districts (127 pages) and 3,560 House candidates in 360 constituencies (300 pages). Serial numbers are contiguous within each state. One House entry prints an age of 947; it is kept as printed and flagged.
Limitations
Names are printed surname first, with inconsistent spacing in some constituency names (normalised for matching; the printed form is kept). Lists can change through substitutions or court orders, so they are re-checked daily.
Ingestion plan
Ingested with ingest/inec_candidates.py: SHA-256 of each PDF, Wayback Machine copy, pdfplumber table extraction, validation of serials, ages, genders, party codes and constituency counts. A daily GitHub Action (ingest/inec_watch.py) reports any change for human review before re-ingestion.
Expected records, as stated: 4,881 candidates and 18 running mates ingested (presidential, Senate, House).
Terms of use
INEC's website states 'All Rights Reserved'. Facts are extracted and cited to the original notice; the PDFs are linked, not republished.
Possible joins
- Party abbreviation
- State
- Constituency name
- Election date
Joins describe keys that could connect datasets. A link between ownership, contracts or finance records does not show causation or wrongdoing.
Referenced in coverage
- Candidates, 2027: PARTIAL