10 data trends from the 2019 Presidential Election Results

The results are in: President Buhari is the winner of the 2019 Presidential elections. The Atiku camp has made it clear that the results will be challenged, but election tribunals have flipped Gubernatorial results, never Presidential results. We await to see if this will change.

As part of our work with the Election Data Centre, we have noted down a number of trends that stood out from the 2019 Presidential elections, in the hope of bringing more rigour and analysis to Nigerian elections.

Disclaimer: Notwithstanding the analysis below, we appreciate the overall impact of election manipulation, violence, and vote-buying on the final numbers.

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1. Southern Nigeria welcomes the 3^rd force

Despite accounting for a lower portion of all registered voters (46%) and with a much lower voter turnout (27%), the South accounted for 60% of all 3rd force votes, with 38% of these votes coming from the South-West alone. This implies