How Many House of Representatives Are There in Nigeria
Feb. 23, 2019 Held
84,004,084
Registered to Vote
Federal Commonwealth of Nigeria
Ballot for Nigerian House of Representatives
More Info:
Results:
Seats won in this election:*
- All Progressives Congress (APC): 217
- People's Democratic Political party (PDP): 115
- All Progressives K Alliance (APGA): nine
- African Autonomous Congress (ADC): three
- People's Redemption Party (PRP): 2
- Action Brotherhood (AA): 2
- Scoail Autonomous Political party (SDP): i
- Labor Party (LP): 1
- Allied Peoples' Movement (APM): 1
* Eight seats have still to be awarded and will be added here when they are.
At Pale in this Election:
- 360 seats in the House of Representatives
Government Structure:
- Chief of Country: President Muhammadu BUHARI
- Head of Authorities: President Muhammadu BUHARI
- Assembly: Nigeria has a bicameral National Assembly consisting of the Senate with 109 seats and the House of Representatives with 360 seats.
- The President is both the main of state and head of government.
Balloter System:
- The President is elected by qualified plurality vote to serve a 4-year term. An accented majority or at to the lowest degree 25% in two-thirds of the states is required for a candidate to exist elected in the first round. If no candidate wins in the starting time round, there is a 2nd round betwixt
- In the Senate 109 members are elected by simple bulk vote in unmarried-member constituencies to serve 4-twelvemonth terms. Each of the 36 states is divided into 3 senatorial districts. One senator is elected from each of these districts and the Federal Capital Territory. In the Business firm of Representatives 360 members are elected by elementary majority vote in single-member constituencies to serve 4-year terms.
Main Parties in this Election:*
- Political party: All Progressives Congress (APC) **
- Leader: Comrade Adams Aliyu OSHIOMHOLE
- Seats won in last election: 212
- Party: People'southward Democratic Political party (PDP)
- Leader: Prince Uche SECONDUS
- Seats won in concluding ballot: 140
- Political party: All Progressives Thousand Alliance (APGA)
- Leader: Victor Ikechukwu OYE
- Seats won in terminal election: 5
- Party:Labour Party (LP)
- Leader: Mike OMOTOSHO
- Seats won in concluding ballot: 1
- Party: Accordance Party
- Leader: Mohammad Lawal NALADO
- Seats won in last election: one
- Party: Social Democratic Party (SDP)
- Leader: Primary Olu FALAE
- Seats won in last election: 1
- Party: Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN)
- Leader: Alhaji Ganiyu GALADIMA
- Seats won in terminal election: 0
- Party: Zenith Labor Party (ZLP)
- Leader: Olusegun MIMIKO
- Seats won in last election: N/A
- Party: Immature Progressives Party (YPP)
- Leader: Bishop AMAKIRI
- Seats won in concluding election: N/A
- Party: African Action Congress (AAC)
- Leader: Malcolm FABIYI
- Seats won in last election: N/A
* There are 91 parties participating in this election.
** The All Progressives Congress is an opposition alliance consisting of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the All Nigeria People's Political party (ANPP).
Population and Registered Voters:
- Population: 200,962,417 (2019 est.)
- Registered Voters: 84,004,084
Gender Information:
- Female Population: 99,086,852 (2019 est.)
- Is Nigeria a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (23 April 1984)
- Has Nigeria ratified CEDAW: Yes (13 June 1985)
- Gender Quota: No
- Female candidates in this election: Yes
- Number of Female Parliamentarians: xx/360 (House of Representatives); 7/108 (Senate)
- Human Development Alphabetize Position: 157 (2018)
- Social Institutions and Gender Alphabetize (SIGI) Categorization: Very Loftier (2014)
Disability Data:
- Is Nigeria a signatory to CRPD: Yep (30 March 2007)
- Has Nigeria ratified CRPD: Yep (24 September 2010)
- Population with a inability: 27,234,308 (est.)
Source: https://www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3101/
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