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Nigeria Elections, Parliament, and Official Sources

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Nigeria

Explore Nigeria's official 2023 presidential declaration: all 18 candidate totals, national ballot accounting, result-document upload coverage for all 36 states and the FCT, permanent pages, and public API records.

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permanent country IDPublished now

electoral-management sourcePublished now

national election-authority linkPublished now

parliamentary institution namesPublished now

official 2023 presidential national declarationPublished now

all 18 candidate totalsPublished now

national ballot accountingPublished now

all 36 states and the FCT in the source-bounded IReV result-document coverage tablePublished now

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The official 2023 presidential declaration records are available.

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permanent country ID
electoral-management source
national election-authority link
parliamentary institution names
official 2023 presidential national declaration
all 18 candidate totals
national ballot accounting
all 36 states and the FCT in the source-bounded IReV result-document coverage table
historical result API

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Who selects whom?

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Nigeria API record

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Election administration

Independent

International IDEA's published electoral-management model for Nigeria, source year 2019. This is a reproduced source label, not an Electionpedia rating.

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National authority

Independent National Electoral Commission

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National Assembly

House of RepresentativesSenate

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232,679,478

World Bank Population, total for 2024. This value defines the reproducible major-country cohort; it is not an Electionpedia rank or judgment of importance.

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