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President Muhammadu Buhari has won the 2019 presidential election held on Saturday, February 23, 2019.
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the final results, said President Buhari polled a total of 15,191,847 to defeat his closest rival and the PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who polled 11,262,978.
Buhari, 76, who polled more votes from the north, won in a total of 19 states, scoring the statutory 25 per cent of total votes cast in those states, while his main challenger, Atiku, drawing more from the South East an South South, won in 17 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
Below are the results declared from the 36 states of the federation and FCT:
1. Nasarawa
APC: 289,903
PDP: 283,847
2. Kwara
APC: 308,984
PDP: 138,184
3. FCT
APC: 152,224
PDP: 259,997
4. Ekiti
APC: 219,231
PDP: 154,032
5. Osun
APC: 347,634
PDP: 337,377
6. Gombe
APC – 402,961
PDP – 138,484
7. Kogi
APC – 285,894
PDP – 218,207
8. Ondo
APC – 241,769
PDP – 275,901
9. Lagos
APC – 580,825
PDP – 448,015
10. Oyo
APC – 365,230
PDP – 366,720
11. Abia
APC – 85,056
PDP – 219,698
12. Yobe
APC – 497,914
PDP – 50,763
13. Ebonyi
APC: 90,726
PDP: 258,573
14. Borno
APC: 841,736
PDP: 71,788
15. Anambra
APC – 33,298
PDP – 524,738
16. Niger
APC – 612,371
PDP – 218,052
17. Adamawa
APC – 378,072
PDP – 410,267
18. Jigawa
APC – 794,738
PDP – 289,895
19. Kaduna
APC – 993,445
PDP – 649,612
20. Kano
APC – 1,464,768
PDP – 391,593
21. Plateau
APC – 468,555
PDP – 548,665
22. Delta
APC – 221,292
PDP – 594,068
23. Bauchi
APC – 798,428
PDP – 209,313
24. Ogun
APC – 281,762
PDP – 194,655
25. Edo
APC – 267,842
PDP – 275,691
26. Benue
APC – 347,668
PDP – 356,817
27. Imo
APC – 140,463
PDP – 334,923
28. Taraba
APC – 324,906
PDP – 374,906
29. Katsina
APC – 1,232,133
PDP – 308,056
30. Rivers
APC – 150,710
PDP – 473,971
31. Cross River
APC – 117,302
PDP – 295,737
32. Bayelsa
APC – 118,821
PDP – 197,933
33. Akwa Ibom
APC – 175,429
PDP – 395,832
34. Sokoto
APC – 490,333
PDP – 361,604
35. Kebbi
APC – 581,552
PDP – 154,282
36. Enugu
APC – 54,423
PDP – 355,553
37. Zamfara
APC – 438,682
PDP – 125,423
TOTAL
APC – 15,191,847
PDP – 11,262,978