elections.civic.ng

Election Data Sources

This page exposes the dataset registry that backs election result, turnout, and polling-unit discovery across CivicNG. Provenance, freshness, and known caveats stay visible here before downstream pages reuse any dataset.

Source registry before downstream claims

Elections pages should not hide where result and polling-unit data come from, how current the registry is, or what still needs review. This page reads the shared data.civic.ng registry for that purpose.

  • Official and institutional sources are labeled directly instead of being implied by page design.
  • Needs-review status remains visible when election records still depend on mixed formats or incomplete ingestion provenance.
  • Freshness reflects the latest registry-backed ingestion run when a record store is configured, and says so when it is not.

Registry-backed source context updates independently from summary pages.

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INEC Election Results

Official Nigerian election results published by the Independent National Electoral Commission, including presidential, gubernatorial, National Assembly, and State House of Assembly outcomes.

Source
INEC
Freshness
Registry metadata only
Coverage
Nigeria (national, state, LGA, ward, polling unit)
Update cycle
Per election cycle
Geography levels
country, state, lga, ward, polling unit
License
Public records (no formal open license declared)

What this dataset can support

  • Votes cast by candidate by polling unit
  • Registered voters by polling unit
  • Voter turnout

Current limitation

INEC publishes results in mixed formats (PDF, scanned forms, web pages). Status is needs_review until a normalized ingestion path is documented per election.