Nigerian general election, 2019
Nigerian presidential election, 2019
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General elections will be held in Nigeria on 16 February 2019 to elect the President and the National Assembly.[1][2] They will be the sixth quadrennial elections since the end of military rule in 1999. Presidential primaries are likely to be held during the last six months of 2018.
Barring any major change in circumstances, Muhammadu Buhari, who was elected in 2015, will be eligible to seek re-election. The winner is scheduled to be inaugurated on 29 May 2019.
Electoral system
The President of Nigeria is elected using the two-round system, with a candidate needing over 50% of the national vote or over 25% of the vote in two-thirds of states to be elected in the first round.[3] The 360 members of the House of Representatives are elected using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies,[4] whilst the 109 members of the Senate are elected from 36 three-seat constituencies based on the States and one single-member constituency based on the Federal Capital Territory, all by first-past-the-post voting.[5]
Speculative candidates
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