2011 Nigerian parliamentary election

none October 2019 February 2023 Nigeria 9 April 2011 2007 2015 yes House of Representatives All 360 seats in the House of Representatives 160 People's Democratic Party (Nigeria) Ahmadu Ali 46.63 203 262 ACN Bisi Akande 17.98 69 32 Congress for Progressive Change Muhammadu Buhari 14.73 38 New All Nigeria Peoples Party Alh Modu Sherif 10.14 28 62 Labour Party (Nigeria) 3.44 8 1 All Progressives Grand Alliance Victor Umeh 1.71 7 3 Accord 1.17 5 0 DPP Umaru Ahmed 1.17 1 0 PPN 0.47 1 0 yes Senate election yes All 109 seats in the Senate 56 yes People's Democratic Party (Nigeria) 71 85 ACN 18 6 Congress for Progressive Change 7 New All Nigeria Peoples Party 7 16 Labour 4 0 DPP 1 0 All Progressives Grand Alliance 1 0 Accord 0 1 Parliamentary elections were held in Nigeria on 9 April 2011. Dates The election was originally scheduled to be held on 2 April.http://www.allwestafrica.com/240920106989.html Nigeria’s General Elections Postponed From January To April As A New Voter Registration Software Is Released by the Inec - West African News Allwestafrica.com 24 September 2010 19 April 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20101202230837/http://www.allwestafrica.com/240920106989.html 2 December 2010 dmy-all https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11825092 Nigeria to hold presidential election on 9 April Bbc.co.uk 23 November 2010 19 April 2011 However it was later postponed to 4 April on the originally scheduled day of the election itselfhttp://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/02/nigeria.election/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110405003225/http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/02/nigeria.election/ dead 5 April 2011 Nigeria postpones parliamentary election - CNN.com CNN 9 April 2011 as voters turned up in the morning to see ballots had not yet arrived. The next day Attahiru Jega, the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said that "The commission weighed all the options and considered the wide-ranging counsel of Nigerians and decided to reschedule all the elections as follows: Saturday, April 9, senate and house of representatives elections; Saturday, April 16, presidential elections; Tuesday, April 26, state houses of assembly and governorship elections. Some parties have said they won't take part. Without political parties there was no election so INEC has to listen to their comments." This came after Jega was allocated US$570m budget in August 2010 to overhaul voter lists and acquire more ballot boxes.http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/04/201143174718212830.html Nigeria elections postponed for second time - Africa Al Jazeera English 3 April 2011 9 April 2011 Contesting parties The incumbent People's Democratic Party ran against the Action Congress of Nigeria and the Congress for Progressive Change, amongst others. The CPC appeared to make inroads in the north. Campaign The people living in the oil-producing Niger Delta sought political representation that would be strong enough to be able to deal with a cleanup of the polluted parts of their region.http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/04/2011412134521299209.html Oil and democracy in the Niger Delta - Africa Al Jazeera English 12 April 2011 19 April 2011 In Kano State, traditional voting along sectarian lines was seen to change in favour of cross-voting for candidates who seemed most capable of delivering on promises of alleviating poverty.http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/04/201141345026522374.html Nigeria poll reveals shift in allegiances - Africa Al Jazeera English 13 April 2011 19 April 2011 Conduct In December 2010, bombs went off in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State during a gubernatorial campaign rally. There were also bombings and shooting in the north blamed on Boko Haram. Politicians and police said that the campaign of violence aimed to disrupt the election.https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE6BP0PM20101229 https://web.archive.org/web/20110101063645/http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE6BP0PM20101229 dead 1 January 2011 Bombs, shootings hit Nigeria before election year | World | Reuters Af.reuters.com 29 December 2010 19 April 2011 Again on 3 March assailants in Abuja attacked a People's Democratic Party rally with a bomb killing three and wounding 21. The police said that the attack occurred just after the state governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu made an address and left.(AFP) https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hlgUIGZs9ZSEWegW9YFcZhQgy2sA?docId=CNG.ad0cca558466fd5466dfe9b075f4a6ec.8a1 https://archive.today/20130125184622/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hlgUIGZs9ZSEWegW9YFcZhQgy2sA?docId=CNG.ad0cca558466fd5466dfe9b075f4a6ec.8a1 dead 25 January 2013 AFP: Bomb blast kills three at Nigeria rally: police Google.com 3 March 2011 9 April 2011 The day before the election a bomb went off by the National Electoral Commission offices in Suleja outside the capital Abuja killing at least eight people. The bombing followed a shooting in Borno state that killed four people, including a member of the incumbent Peoples' Democratic Party. On the day of the election itself another bomb went off in Maiduguri. Yushua Shuaib of the National Emergency Management Agency said there was a possibility of casualties.http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/04/201148195657822597.html Nigeria hit by second blast as polls continue - Africa Al Jazeera English 9 April 2011 At least two were later reported to have died. During the campaigning season up to a 100 people were reported to have died in bombings and shootings.http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/04/201149212555710567.html Vote counting under way in Nigeria - Africa Al Jazeera English 9 April 2011 19 April 2011 Results Turnout was reported to be low in the commercial capital of Lagos. Voting in the north continued the next day as there was a high turnout. Preliminary results indicated that the incumbent People's Democratic Party would lose their parliamentary strength. The Action Congress of Nigeria made gains in the southwest, where Lagos is located and the Congress for Progressive Change made gains in the north. High-profile losses included the PDP's Dimeji Bankole, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and former president Olusegun Obasanjo's daughter in the Senate. However the PDP still had just over half of the one-fifth of the seats declared at the time.http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/04/20114101866893616.html Nigeria ruling party loses political ground - Africa Al Jazeera English 10 April 2011 19 April 2011 Polling in 15 Senatorial districts and 48 federal constituencies were delayed again until 26 April 2011 due to logistical problems.https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110407/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_election Nigeria: Some elections delayed again - Yahoo! News News.yahoo.com 18 January 2011 9 April 2011http://www.inecnigeria.org/an-address-by-the-chairman-of-inec-prof-a-m-jega-on-preparations-for-the-rescheduled-national-assembly-elections/ An Address by the Chairman of INEC, Prof. A. M. Jega on Preparations for the rescheduled National Assembly Elections (Affected Sen. & Fed Const. inserted) INEC Nigeria 19 April 2011 dead https://swap.stanford.edu/20110416021443/http%3A//www.inecnigeria.org/an%2Daddress%2Dby%2Dthe%2Dchairman%2Dof%2Dinec%2Dprof%2Da%2Dm%2Djega%2Don%2Dpreparations%2Dfor%2Dthe%2Drescheduled%2Dnational%2Dassembly%2Delections/ 16 April 2011 dmy-all Senate People's Democratic Party 71 Action Congress of Nigeria 18 Congress for Progressive Change 7 All Nigeria Peoples Party 7 Labour Party 4 Democratic People's Party 1 All Progressives Grand Alliance 1 IPU House of Representatives People's Democratic Party 13351647 203 Action Congress of Nigeria 5141856 69 Congress for Progressive Change 4212283 38 All Nigeria Peoples Party 2900306 28 Labour Party 982647 8 Democratic People's Party 489074 1 All Progressives Grand Alliance 487753 7 Accord 335760 5 People's Party of Nigeria 133651 1 Allied Congress Party of Nigeria 87233 0 Progressive Peoples Alliance 77765 0 People for Democratic Change 62360 0 National Transformation Party 53574 0 PDA 30644 0 African Democratic Congress 28907 0 Action Congress 18732 0 African Liberation Party 15361 0 Social Democratic Mega Party 15236 0 Kowa Party 14736 0 Mega Progressive Peoples Party 14698 0 Alliance for Democracy 13041 0 People's Action Congress 12938 0 National Conscience Party 11681 0 African Political System 9681 0 United Nigeria Peoples' Party 9507 0 National Solidarity Democratic Party 9252 0 People's Redemption Party 9215 0 ANC 8556 0 Democratic Front for People's Federation 7390 0 African Renaissance Party 6958 0 Change Advocacy Party 6612 0 United Democratic Party 6015 0 Citizens Popular Party 5500 0 Congress for Democratic Change 5412 0 Action Party of Nigeria 3038 0 Movement for the Restoration of Defence and Democracy 2856 0 Justice Party 2617 0 Hope Democratic Party 2561 0 Fresh Democratic Party 2156 0 People's Progressive Party 844 0 Advanced Congress of Democrats 779 0 NAP 735 0 Nigeria People's Congress 693 0 Allied Congress Party 640 0 People's Salvation Party 616 0 Freedom Party of Nigeria 510 0 Movement of the People Party 495 0 UPGA 416 0 Community Party of Nigeria 392 0 National Reformation Party 308 0 National Majority Democratic Party 295 0 DFPD 274 0 Republican Party of Nigeria 256 0 MCP 229 0 New Nigeria People's Party 204 0 National Movement of Progressive Party 204 0 NTA 128 0 People's Mandate Party 127 0 Better Nigeria Progressive Party 120 0 FNP 43 0 Movement for Democracy and Justice 3 0 0 INEC Results by state Bayelsa State Federal Capital Territory Kwara State Nasarawa State Taraba State See also Nigerian Senators of the 7th National Assembly References Further reading Ayoade, John A., and Adeoye A. Akinsanya, eds. Nigeria's Critical Election, 2011 (Lexington Books; 2012) Category:Parliamentary elections in Nigeria parliamentary election Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Parl