2023 Nigerian elections

2023 Nigerian elections

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Presidential election
Turnout	26.71% (8.04pp)
Nominee Bola Tinubu Atiku Abubakar Party APC PDP Home state Lagos Adamawa Running mate Kashim Shettima Ifeanyi Okowa States carried 12 12 Popular vote 8,794,726 6,984,520 Percentage 36.61% 29.07%   Nominee Peter Obi Rabiu Kwankwaso Party LP New Nigeria Peoples Party Home state Anambra Kano Running mate Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed Isaac Idahosa States carried 11 + FCT 1 Popular vote 6,101,533 1,496,687 Percentage 25.40% 6.23%
President before election Muhammadu Buhari APC Elected President Bola Tinubu APC
National Assembly elections
Party Leader % Seats +/– Senate APC Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan PDP Vacant YPP Ifeanyi Ubah[a] APGA Enyinnaya Abaribe[a] New Nigeria Peoples Party Ibrahim Shekarau[a] House of Representatives APC Femi Gbajabiamila PDP Ndudi Elumelu New Nigeria Peoples Party Rufai Ahmed Alkali[b] APGA Victor Ikechukwu Oye[b] SDP Vacant[b] LP Julius Abure[b] ADC Leke Abejide[c] PRP Umar Abdulkadir Sarki[c] Accord Shina Peller[c] This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Gubernatorial elections
30 governorships
Majority party Minority party Third party   Party APC PDP APGA

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The 2023 Nigerian elections were held in large part on 25 February and 11 March 2023. The president and vice president were elected on 25 February, with incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari ineligible to run, being term-limited.^[1] Additionally, there were also elections on the same day for the Senate and the House of Representatives. On 11 March, twenty-eight gubernatorial elections were held alongside elections to state houses of assembly in all 36 states.^[1] Three additional gubernatorial elections will be held later in the year alongside potential rerun elections for regularly scheduled elections annulled from earlier in the year.

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