{ "data": { "id": "nigeria-presidential-2027-r2", "country": "NG", "country_name": "Nigeria", "date": "2027-01-23", "date_status": "tentative", "kind": "runoff", "conditional": "Held only if no presidential candidate on 16 Jan 2027 has the most votes AND at least 25% of the votes in two-thirds of the 36 states and the FCT (Constitution s.134(2)). Then INEC 'shall within seven days of the result' arrange a second election between the top candidate and the one with a majority of votes in the most states (s.134(3)-(4)); note: seven days, not 21. The date 23 Jan 2027 is an ESTIMATE, not an INEC date: the first Saturday within seven days of a declaration on day 4 (the 2023 precedent). INEC's timetable sets no second-election date, and no Nigerian presidential election has gone to one. The Senate and House have no runoff.", "timezone": "Africa/Lagos", "status": "scheduled", "last_verified_at": "2026-09-24T19:51:53Z", "stale": false, "stale_reason": null, "provenance": { "from": "researcher agent 2026-09-24: INEC election calendar (inecnigeria.org/elections/calendar), Voice of Nigeria 27 Feb 2026 (revised timetable), Electoral Act 2026 (PLAC copy) ss.25, 45, 59, 60, PLAC 2027 electoral calendar factsheet (Mar 2026), 1999 Constitution ss.132, 134, 239, 246, 285 (constituteproject.org), 2023 precedent (Leadership 1 Mar 2023, TheCable 25 Feb 2023, Channels TV 27 Mar 2023, VOA/Vanguard 26 Oct 2023)", "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)" }, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/nigeria-presidential-2027-r2", "races": [ { "id": "president", "key": "nigeria-presidential-2027-r2/president", "name": "President (second election)", "body": "head-of-state", "seats": null, "polls_close_utc": "2027-01-23T13:30:00Z", "authority": { "id": "ng-inec", "name": "Independent National Electoral Commission", "name_local": null, "role": "electoral-commission", "homepage": "https://www.inecnigeria.org/", "results_index": "https://inecelectionresults.ng/", "open_data": null }, "status": "scheduled", "expected_stage_now": null, "observed": false, "final_expected": { "from": "2027-01-25T23:00:00Z", "by": "2027-01-30T22:59:59Z", "confidence": "estimate", "basis": "Second election; its date is an ESTIMATE (see conditional), so every window here shifts with it. The Chief Electoral Commissioner (INEC chairman) is the returning officer and declares the winner at the National Collation Centre (Electoral Act 2026 s.25(2)(h), (3)); a winner needs the most votes and at least 25% in two-thirds of the 36 states and the FCT (Constitution s.134(2)). 2023: polling Sat 25 Feb, declaration by chairman Mahmood Yakubu 'in the wee hours of Wednesday' 1 Mar 2023 (Leadership, 1 Mar 2023), day 4. The window opens at the start of day 3 (an ESTIMATED floor) and closes at the end of day 7, WAT, three days past precedent. Settle on the declaration, not on IReV images or state tallies." }, "stages": [ { "stage": "election-night", "from": "2027-01-23T13:30:00Z", "by": "2027-01-25T22:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "estimate", "citation": "Second election; its date is an ESTIMATE (see conditional), so every window here shifts with it. Polls: 08:30-14:30 WAT (UTC+1, no DST). The Electoral Act 2026 s.45 leaves the hour to INEC; 14:30 is INEC's standing close (chairman Yakubu, 25 Feb 2023, TheCable: 'We don't start 8:30am and close 2:30pm on the dot ... whoever is on the queue before 2:30pm will vote'). The 2026 Regulations and Guidelines were not retrievable to confirm the 2027 hours. From the close, presiding officers upload polling-unit result sheets (Form EC8A) to IReV (Electoral Act 2026 s.60(3)). These are unofficial images, not a collated count. 2023: presidential uploads lagged for days after a glitch INEC admitted (Channels TV, 23 Feb 2024). The window closes at the end of the second day after polling day, WAT; uploads can continue after it.", "source": null, "observedAt": null }, { "stage": "intermediate-count", "from": "2027-01-23T23:00:00Z", "by": "2027-01-30T22:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "estimate", "citation": "Second election; its date is an ESTIMATE (see conditional), so every window here shifts with it. State collation officers present each state's result at the National Collation Centre, Abuja (Electoral Act 2026 s.25(1)(d), (2)(g)-(h)); the running national total builds up state by state over the days after polling. 2023: collation ran from Sunday 26 Feb until the declaration early on Wednesday 1 Mar. Announced live at the centre, not on one results page; the IReV images are not this count.", "source": null, "observedAt": null }, { "stage": "final-result", "from": "2027-01-25T23:00:00Z", "by": "2027-01-30T22:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "estimate", "citation": "Second election; its date is an ESTIMATE (see conditional), so every window here shifts with it. The Chief Electoral Commissioner (INEC chairman) is the returning officer and declares the winner at the National Collation Centre (Electoral Act 2026 s.25(2)(h), (3)); a winner needs the most votes and at least 25% in two-thirds of the 36 states and the FCT (Constitution s.134(2)). 2023: polling Sat 25 Feb, declaration by chairman Mahmood Yakubu 'in the wee hours of Wednesday' 1 Mar 2023 (Leadership, 1 Mar 2023), day 4. The window opens at the start of day 3 (an ESTIMATED floor) and closes at the end of day 7, WAT, three days past precedent. Settle on the declaration, not on IReV images or state tallies.", "source": null, "observedAt": null }, { "stage": "court-validation", "from": "2027-02-16T23:00:00Z", "by": "2027-11-07T22:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "estimate", "citation": "Second election; its date is an ESTIMATE (see conditional), so every window here shifts with it. Constitution s.285(5)-(7): a petition must be filed within 21 days of the declaration; the Court of Appeal (as Presidential Election Petition Court, s.239) rules within 180 days of filing; an appeal to the Supreme Court is disposed of within 60 days of that judgment. If no petition is filed, the declaration stands once the 21 days lapse (the window opens 21 days after the earliest declaration). 2023: PEPC judgment 6 Sep 2023, Supreme Court 26 Oct 2023 (VOA, Vanguard), 239 days after the 1 Mar declaration. The window closes at the end of the eighth month after polling, past the constitutional outer limit (21+180+60 days plus the appeal filing). A 2024 bill (HB.1154) to finish petitions before swearing-in had not been enacted as far as found; inauguration is 29 May 2027 regardless.", "source": null, "observedAt": null } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://inecelectionresults.ng/", "role": "results-live", "kind": "results_index", "kindReason": "results host, but its root lists many elections", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "IReV (INEC Result Viewing portal): an index of every election INEC runs, not a page for this one. Presiding officers upload a photo of each polling-unit result sheet (Form EC8A) here (Electoral Act 2026 s.60(3)); it carries no collated national total. Per-election pages follow /pres/elections/?type=pres and /elections//... (2023 presidential: /pres/elections/63f8f25b594e164f8146a213?type=pres). No id for the 16 Jan 2027 elections yet; the IReV API was unreachable from here on 24 Sep 2026.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.inecnigeria.org/elections/calendar", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "INEC election calendar (client-rendered): 'January 16, 2027', status 'Scheduled', for the presidential and National Assembly elections (the page mislabels the row 'Presidential / House Of Assembly'); governorship and state assemblies 6 Feb 2027. The revised Timetable and Schedule of Activities itself is no longer online at its old inecnigeria.org URL (404 on 24 Sep 2026).", "check": null }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2027_Nigerian_general_election", "role": "see-also", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.inecnigeria.org/", "role": "authority-home", "kind": "emb_home", "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question", "resolvable": false, "origin": "authority", "check": null } ], "page_activity": [], "government": null, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/nigeria-presidential-2027-r2#president" } ] }, "meta": { "dataset_version": "2026-09-24.4702fd43", "built_at": "2026-09-24T20:45:22Z", "generated_at": "2026-09-24T21:41:36.248Z", "licence": "CC BY 4.0: credit \"Election Index (electionindex.org)\" and link to https://electionindex.org", "docs": "https://electionindex.org/docs" } }