A Results
APC (Muhammadu Buhari) – 15.19 million votes
PDP (Atiku Abubakar) – 11 25 million votes
Difference: 3,937,683 votes
B NATIONAL SPREAD OF VOTES (25% or more)
APC (Buhari): 33 states + FCT
Abia State: 29%
Adamawa State: 48%
Akwa Ibom State: 31%
Anambra State: 6
Bauchi State: 79%
Bayelsa State: 38%
Benue State: 49%
Borno State: 92%
Cross-River State: 28%
Delta State: 27%
Ebonyi State: 26%
Edo State: 49%
Ekiti State: 59%
Enugu State: 13%
Gombe State: 74%
Imo State: 30%
Jigawa State: 73%
Kaduna State: 60%
Kano State: 79%
Katsina State: 80%
Kebbi State: 79%
Kogi State: 57%
Kwara State: 69%
Lagos State: 56%
Nasarawa State: 51%
Niger State: 74%
Ogun State: 59%
Ondo State: 47%
Osun State: 51%
Oyo State: 50%
Plateau State: 46%
Rivers State: 24%
Sokoto State: 58%
Taraba State: 46%
Yobe State: 91%
Zamfara State: 78%
FCT: 37%
PDP (Atiku): 29 states + FCT
Abia State: 71%
Adamawa State: 52%
Akwa Ibom State: 69%
Anambra State: 94%
Bauchi State: 21%
Bayelsa State: 62%
Benue State: 51%
Borno State: 8%
Cross-River State: 72%
Delta State: 73%
Ebonyi State: 74%
Edo State: 51%
Ekiti State: 41%
Enugu State: 87%
Gombe State: 26%
Imo State: 70%
Jigawa State: 27%
Kaduna State: 40%
Kano State: 21%
Katsina State: 20%
Kebbi State: 21%
Kogi State: 43%
Kwara State: 31%
Lagos State: 44%
Nasarawa State: 49%
Niger State: 26%
Ogun State: 41%
Ondo State: 53%
Osun State: 49%
Oyo State: 50%
Plateau State: 54%
Rivers State: 76%
Sokoto State: 42%
Taraba State: 54%
Yobe State: 9%
Zamfara State: 22%
FCT: 63%
25% Spread by Zone
1 North Central:
Both APC and PDP scored more than 25% in all the 6 states and the FCT.
2. North-East:
APC scored more than 25%in each of the 6 states with scores ranging from 46% in Taraba to to 91% in Yobe to 92% in Borno
PDP scored 25% or more in 3 states (Adamawa: 52%, Gombe: 26%, Yobe: 28%) but less than 25% in 3 states (Bauchi: 21%, Borno: 8% and Taraba: 9%).
3. North-West:
APC scored more than 25% in each of the 7 states ranging from 60% in Kaduna State to 80% in Katsina State.
PDP scored 25% or more in 3 of the 7 states with scores ranging from 27% in Jigawa State, 40% in Kaduna State to 42% in Sokoto State. PDP scored less than 25% in Kano (21%), Katsina (20%), Kebbi (21%) and Zamfara (22%).
4. South-East
APC scored 25% or more in 3 of 5 states, namely Abia(29%), Ebonyi(26%) and Imo(30%); scored less than 25 in Anambra(6%) and Enugu(13%).
PDP scored more than 25% in all the 5 states, ranging from 70% (Imo) to 94% (Anambra)
5. South-South
APC scored 25% or more in 5 of the 6 states with scores ranging from 27% in Delta to 49% in Edo. APC did not score 25% in Rivers. PDP scored more than 25% in each of the 6 states with scores ranging from 51% in Edo State to 76% in Rivers State.
6. South West:
Both APC and PDP scored more than 25% in each of the 6 states with these score ranges:
APC: 47% in Ondo to 59% in Ekiti
PDP: 41% in Ekiti and Ogun to 53% in Ondo
C. GEO-POLITICAL SPREAD
Zonal Perfmance
a.
1. North-Central + FCT:
APC: 55% PDP: 45%
2. North-East:
APC: 72% PDP: 28%
3. North-West:
APC: 72% PDP: 28%
4. South-East:
APC: 19% PDP: 81%
5. South- South:
APC: 24% PDP: 26%
6. South-West:
APC: 53% PDP: 47%
b.
Votes Cast
1. North-Central + FCT:
APC: 2,402,287
PDP: 2,023,989
Difference: 441,610 in favour of APC
2. North-East:
APC: 3,238,783
PDP: 1,255,317
Difference: 1,983,466 in favour of APC
3. North-West:
APC: 5,995,681
PDP: 2,280,466
Difference: 3,715,215 in favour of APC
4. South-East:
APC: 403,963
PDP: 1, 684, 485
Difference: 1,280,522 in favour of PDP
5. South-South
APC: 1,051,456
PDP: 2,233,232
Difference: 1,181,776 in favour of PDP
6. South-West:
APC: 2,036,450
PDP: 1,776,760
Difference: 259,690 in favour of APC.
