2015 Taraba State gubernatorial election

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2015 Taraba State gubernatorial election
  2011 April 11, 2015 2019  
 
Nominee Darius Ishaku Aisha Alhassan
Party PDP APC
Popular vote369,318275,984

Governor before election

Danbaba Suntai
PDP

Elected Governor

Darius Ishaku
PDP

The 2015 Taraba State gubernatorial election was the 6th gubernatorial election of Taraba State. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] Held on April 11, 2015 and April 25, 2015 due to inconclusive, the People's Democratic Party nominee Darius Ishaku won the election, defeating Aisha Alhassan of the All Progressives Congress. [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]

Contents

PDP primary

PDP candidate, Darius Ishaku clinched the party ticket. [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] The PDP primary election was held in 2014. [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66]

APC primary

APC candidate, Aisha Alhassan clinched the party ticket. The APC primary election was held in 2014. [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75]

Results

A total of 11 candidates contested in the election. Darius Ishaku from the People's Democratic Party won the election, defeating Aisha Alhassan from the All Progressives Congress. [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] Registered voters was 1,461,645, accredited voters was 787,516, votes cast was 681,166, 174,131 votes was cancelled. The winner, Darius Ishaku won by 93,334 votes. [86] [87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95] [96]

2015 Taraba State gubernatorial election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
PDP Darius Ishaku 369,318
APC Aisha Alhassan 275,984
PDP hold

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