FULL LIST: Lagos alone equals 65% of entire south-east voters

January 8, 2019 10:57 am

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday announced the total number of voters in the country as over 84 million.

Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, said the national voter register hit 84,004,084 after the continuous voter registration which ended in 2018.

The figure, which constitutes 42 percent of Nigeria’s 198 million population, is 15.17 million more than the 68,833,476 voters who participated in the 2015 elections.

QUICK FACTS FROM THE NATIONAL VOTER REGISTER:

Lagos has highest number of voters with 6,570,291, followed by Kano which has 5,457,747 voters.

The voters in Lagos equals 65.3 percent of the voters in the south-east which is the least among the regions with 10,057,130 voters.

North-west region leads with 24 percent of the voters (20,158,100) followed by 19.39 percent in south-west (16,292,212). Other regional data are 11.9 percent of the voters (10,057,130) in south-east; 15.9 percent in south-south (12,841,279); 13.4 percent in north-east (11,289,293); and 15.9 percent in north-central (13, 366,070).

Youth – between 18 and 35 years – constitute the highest number of voters with 51.11 percent at 42,938,458 voters.

Below is the representation of the voters in all the 36 states and the FCT:

S/N	STATES	NO OF VOTERS
1	Abia	1,932,892
2	Adamawa	1,973,083
3	Akwa Ibom	2,119,727
4	Anambra	2,447,996
5	Bauchi	2,462,843
6	Bayelsa	923,182
7	Benue	2,480,131
8	Borno	2,315,956
9	Cross River	1,527,289
10	Delta	2,845,274
11	Ebonyi	1,459,933
12	Edo	2,210,534
13	Ekiti	909,967
14	Enugu	1,944,016
15	FCT	1,344,856
16	Gombe	1,394,393
17	Imo	2,272,293
18	Jigawa	2,111,106
19	Kaduna	3,932,492
20	Kano	5,457,747
21	Katsina	3,230,230
22	Kebbi	1,806,231
23	Kogi	1,646,350
24	Kwara	1,406,457
25	Lagos	6,570,291
26	Nasarawa	1,617,786
27	Niger	2,390,035
28	Ogun	2,375,003
29	Ondo	1,822,346
30	Osun	1,680,498
31	Oyo	2,934,107
32	Plateau	2,480,455
33	Rivers	3,215,273
34	Sokoto	1,903,166
35	Taraba	1,777,105
36	Yobe	1,365,913
37	Zamfara	1,717,128
	Total	84,004,084
	NEW VOTERS	15,170,608