2019 Lagos State gubernatorial election

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2019 Lagos State gubernatorial election
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Turnout35.6%
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Nominee Babajide Sanwo-Olu Jimi Agbaje
Party APC PDP
Running mate Femi Hamzat Haleemat Busari
Popular vote739,445206,141
Percentage75.65%21.09%
Home municipality Lagos Island Shomolu
Local governments carried200
Governor before election

Akinwunmi Ambode
APC

Elected Governor

Babajide Sanwo-Olu
APC

The 2019 Lagos gubernatorial election was conducted on 9 March to choose the Governor of Lagos State. The election was held concurrently with various state level elections. Incumbent APC Governor Akinwunmi Ambode lost to the APC flag bearer Babajide Sanwo-Olu at a direct primary election in October 2018 [1] and hence ineligible to run for second term under APC. Babajide Sanwo-Olu won in a landslide against Jimi Agbaje of the PDP who had previously run unsuccessfully for Lagos state governor twice. From 1999, Lagos state has been governed by AD, AC, then ACN, three parties which subsequently formed part of the coalition that birthed the APC in 2013.

Contents

APC primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

  • Femi Hamzat, businessman (endorsed Sanwo-Olu and later became his running mate) [4]

PDP primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Other governorship aspirant and party

[8]

General election

Results

Lagos State gubernatorial election, 2019
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
APC Babajide Sanwoolu 739,445 76.65
PDP Jimi Agbaje 206,14121.09
ADP Babatunde Gbadamosi 4,7800.49
A Joseph Beckley 4,1220.42
ADC Olumuyiwa Fafowora 3,5440.36
YPP Princess Adebisi Ogunsanya 1,6040.16
Majority958,03298.01
Turnout 1,122,416
APC hold Swing

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References

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