INEC Releases Breakdown of Voters Registration by State; 2015 Permutations Begin

Details of the voters’ register released Tuesday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) showed that Lagos State has the highest number of registered voters with 5,822,207 found eligible out of the 68,833,476 registered voters.

Lagos State is followed by Kano State with a total number of 4,975,701 registered voters.

According to details on the INEC website, Kaduna State has a total number of 3,407,222 registered voters; followed by Rivers State which has 2,537,590 registered voters.

Below is the breakdown of the states of Nigeria into geopolitical zones with total number of registered voters with percentage against total voters registered and you can begin your permutation for the presidential elections.

Below are a few interesting Scenarios;


- How would President Jonathan perform in the South-South?

- Would Buhari clean out in North West?

- Would the votes be split down the middle in South East?

- How about the votes in the second largest geopolitical zone, the South-West? Is it a foregone conclusion that Buhari will pip President Jonathan or would it be an overwhelming victory?

South South (Nigeria): loosely known as Niger Delta; includes Edo State, Delta State, Rivers State, Cross-River State, Akwa-Ibom State and Bayelsa State (10,059,347/14.6%)

South West (Nigeria): includes Lagos State, Osun State, Oyo State, Ogun State, Ekiti State and Ondo State (13,731,090/19.9%)

South East (Nigeria): includes Abia State, Anambra State, Imo State, Enugu State and Ebonyi State (7,665,859/11.1%)

North Central (Nigeria): loosely known as Middle Belt; includes Benue State, Kogi State, Kwara State, Nassarawa State, Niger State and Plateau State (9,767,411/14.2%)

North East (Nigeria): Adamawa State, Bauchi State, Borno State, Gombe State, Taraba State and Yobe State (9,107,861/13.2%)

North West (Nigeria): Jigawa State, Kaduna State, Kano State, Katsina State, Kebbi State, Sokoto State and Zamfara State (17,620,436/25.6%)

Federal Capital Territory (Abuja)  (881,472/1.3%)

Total registered Voters  (68,833,476)

State-by-state final figures of the registered voters are as follows;